The Veteran's service-connected allergic bronchitis is found to be the proximate cause of her current diagnosis of PSVT, and thus service connection for PSVT as secondary to allergic bronchitis is granted.
The deciding factor: The expert medical opinion placed the evidence in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's PSVT was caused by or aggravated by her service-connected allergic bronchitis.
- Claimed conditions
- paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT), cardiac arrhythmias
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 16, 2017
- Citation
- 1752660
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for cardiac arrhythmias, lumbar spine pain, and an acquired psychiatric disorder to ensure a VA examination is conducted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of service connection for paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT), to include as due to exposure to Agent Orange, for further development.
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