The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the Veteran's claim for service connection for blood clots, which is now granted as secondary to his service-connected status post splenectomy.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by both VA examiners and a private clinician are in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's blood clots are caused or aggravated by his service-connected status post splenectomy. The Board has therefore found that the evidence supports granting service connection for blood clots as secondary to his service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- blood clots, recurrent pulmonary emboli of the lungs
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2015
- Citation
- 1524269
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What this means for you
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