The veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including obtaining VA and private treatment records, verifying claimed stressors, and scheduling a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of his psychiatric and gastrointestinal disabilities.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed to fully assess the veteran's claims due to incomplete medical records and unverified stressor allegations.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic acquired psychiatric disorder to include chronic PTSD, chronic duodenitis, a chronic stomach disorder to include gastritis, a chronic hiatal hernia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 10, 2007
- Citation
- 0728289
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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.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a 'nervous stomach' is dismissed. The new and material evidence received has reopened the claim of entitlement to service connection for a stomach condition (other than nervous stomach), which includes GERD and chronic duodenitis. Service connection for GERD and chronic duodenitis is granted, but the Veteran's anxiety disorder and low back disability are remanded for further evaluation.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to an inadequate VA examination, which did not consider all relevant evidence of record and may be based on an inaccurate factual premise. The Veteran's gastrointestinal symptoms are alleged to have started shortly after service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for a Board hearing at the RO. The issues of entitlement to increased ratings for chronic duodenitis and hemorrhoids status postoperative with anal stricture are pending.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's current diagnosis of chronic duodenitis was not incurred during service and denied his claim for service connection.
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