The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining a medical opinion regarding whether the appellant's sickle cell anemia and hemoglobin SC disorder first manifested during her period of service.
The deciding factor: The VA General Counsel opinions 67-90 and 82-90 permit entitlement to service connection for familial diseases which first manifested themselves during service, and the Board is instructed to address this issue in compliance with these opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- sickle cell anemia, hemoglobin SC disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0610282
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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.
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