The Board has determined that the evidence is in equipoise, and thus grants service connection for subdural hemorrhage as secondary to bilateral reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows a history of subdural hematoma due to supratherapeutic INR, which is at least as likely as not proximately due to or the result of the Veteran's service-connected bilateral reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
- Claimed conditions
- subdural hemorrhage, reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2020
- Citation
- A20016055
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.
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