The Veteran died in July 1990 due to ventricular arrhythmia and primary electrical disorder. The Board found that these conditions were not related to his service, including presumed herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability or an in-service incurrence or aggravation of any cardiac disorder, and the weight of the evidence is against a finding of continuity of symptomatology since service.
- Claimed conditions
- Ventricular arrhythmia, Primary electrical disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2018
- Citation
- 1817973
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