The Board has remanded the case due to a need for additional development, including obtaining a medical opinion regarding whether any service-connected conditions contributed to the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The appeal is being remanded because there are outstanding issues related to the cause of the veteran's death and the need for further medical evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- optic nerve atrophy of the right eye, subluxation of the left patella, chronic anxiety reaction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 17, 2004
- Citation
- 0415610
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 464 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities were found to have rendered him unemployable as of April 27, 1999, one year prior to the receipt of his claim for TDIU.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for coronary artery disease (CAD) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected chronic anxiety reaction, moderate, major depressive disorder, and diabetes mellitus.
- Whole decision: Granted
The veteran's chronic anxiety reaction is productive of occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, warranting a 70 percent evaluation.
- Whole decision: Denied
The VA Regional Office denied the veteran's claims for an increased rating for his anxiety reaction and TDIU due to service-connected disability. The case is being remanded for further development, including obtaining medical records and a psychiatric examination.
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