The Veteran's heart disability, including atrial fibrillation with a cardiac pacemaker and aortic and mitral valve insufficiency, is rated at 100 percent. The Veteran is also granted total unemployability due to their service-connected heart disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has experienced dyspnea, fatigue, angina, dizziness, or syncope on a workload of 3 METs or less throughout the appeal period, meeting the criteria for a 100 percent evaluation under DC 7000.
- Claimed conditions
- Atrial Fibrillation with Cardiac Pacemaker, Rheumatic Fever
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 11, 2021
- Citation
- 21028669
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