The Board has remanded the case for further development, including an ophthalmological examination to determine if the veteran's bilateral eye disorder is related to service or herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The examiner needs to assess whether the veteran's eye disability was initially manifested in service and if it is at least as likely as not caused by Agent Orange exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral eye disorder to include optic atrophy with horizontal nystagmus
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2005
- Citation
- 0531066
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral eye disorder to include optic atrophy with horizontal nystagmus, finding no competent evidence of a nexus between his current condition and active military service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral eye disorder, finding that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the claim. The case was remanded for further development, including an MRI of the brain to determine the etiology of the condition.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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