The Veteran has been awarded compensation under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for additional psychiatric/cognitive disability and major depressive disorder with anxious distress resulting from emergency cardiopulmonary bypass with coronary artery bypass graft with reserve saphenous vein graft performed in August 2009 at VAMC Oklahoma City.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established that the Veteran's current neurocognitive disorder and major depressive disorder were caused by his August 2009 cardiac surgery, which was not a result of his own misconduct and was not an unforeseeable event.
- Claimed conditions
- Neurocognitive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder with Anxious Distress
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2016
- Citation
- 1604260
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