The Board denied reopening the claims for service connection for organic heart disease and residuals of pleuropericarditis, finding that new and material evidence had not been received to support these claims.
The deciding factor: The appellant did not submit new and material evidence to reopen his previously denied claims for service connection for organic heart disease and residuals of pleuropericarditis.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of pleuropericarditis, organic heart disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2016
- Citation
- 1601013
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