The Board has denied service connection for venous insufficiency of both the right and left legs, finding no evidence linking these conditions to service.
The deciding factor: No medical practitioner has linked the Veteran's bilateral lower extremity venous insufficiency to service.
- Claimed conditions
- venous insufficiency of the right leg, venous insufficiency of the left leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 13, 2024
- Citation
- A24046266
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- Remanded (sent back)
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