The Board denied service connection for portal hypertension as it was not shown to be causally or etiologically related to any disease, injury, or incident during service. The claim is based on direct evidence and no presumptive exposure basis applies.
The deciding factor: There is no credible evidence of an in-service event, disease, or injury related to the portal hypertension and no indication that it may be related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- portal hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24075443
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Decisions by this judge: 134 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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