The Board has ordered a remand to obtain medical opinions regarding the relationship between the veteran's service-connected bilateral leg disabilities and his current heart condition, as well as whether the veteran's hypertensive cardiomyopathy is etiologically related to those disabilities.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions are needed to determine if the veteran's current heart condition is at least as likely as not secondary to his service-connected bilateral leg disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease with left ventricular hypertrophy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 25, 2007
- Citation
- 0715688
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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 Veteran's appeal for service connection on the merits was denied due to a failure to timely file a substantive appeal within the required time frame.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's accrued VA benefits are being divided among his children due to a contested claim. The Board finds that all interested parties, including the adopted child J.K., should be provided with relevant documents and given an opportunity to respond before readjudicating the case.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for a disability rating in excess of 30 percent for coronary artery disease with left ventricular hypertrophy from July 20, 2009 to November 17, 2012.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have hypertension or coronary artery disease with left ventricular hypertrophy that is attributable to his military service.
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