The Board has granted service connection for a heart disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension. The TDIU claim prior to October 13, 2017 is being remanded due to an error in development.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion established that the Veteran's atrial fibrillation was likely caused by his service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- Atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 30, 2022
- Citation
- A22024268
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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