The Board has granted service connection for depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, intermittent paroxysmal atrial flutter, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected lung cancer with pneumonectomy and lobectomy.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran’s arrhythmia disability is proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected lung cancer with pneumonectomy and lobectomy, and reasonable doubt has been resolved in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Intermittent Paroxysmal Atrial Flutter, Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19175770
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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