The Board has ordered a hearing before RO personnel to address the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of venereal disease. The case will be returned to the RO after the hearing.
The deciding factor: The decision is pending due to the need for a hearing as requested by the veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of venereal disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2003
- Citation
- 0330639
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete records from his time in prison. The AOJ is instructed to obtain all relevant medical records, including those from June 1988 to December 1990 and February 1995 to the present.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that additional development is needed to determine the etiology of the Veteran's claimed disabilities, including low back disability, residuals of frostbite of bilateral feet, residuals of venereal disease, and residuals of head trauma. The claims are being remanded for further examination and opinion.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has ordered additional development to obtain correctional facility treatment records and an opinion regarding the etiology of bilateral hearing loss. The appeal is being remanded for these purposes.
- Denied
The Veteran's claimed residuals of venereal disease, including erectile dysfunction and nocturia, were not present during his active duty or for years thereafter, nor have these conditions been causally or etiologically related to his service.
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