Your appeal is being remanded to the RO for scheduling a video conference hearing before the Board.
The deciding factor: The veteran's request for a video conference hearing was not addressed, and it has been ordered to be scheduled.
- Claimed conditions
- mitral valve prolapse syndrome, chondromalacia patella, right knee, mechanical low back pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2008
- Citation
- 0802716
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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 appeals for increased ratings were dismissed because the appeal was untimely filed.
- Partly granted
The Board granted initial disability ratings of 20 percent for the Veteran's service-connected left and right lower extremity radiculopathy, sciatic nerve. The claims for increased ratings and service connection were remanded.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for mechanical low back pain, musculoskeletal neck and cervical spine, and ear condition (such as earaches) based on the evidence showing that these conditions had their onset during active service with continuity of symptoms to the present.
- Granted
The Board grants an effective date of January 23, 2011 for the grant of service connection for a back disability, right knee disability, various right hand disabilities, migraines, and obstructive sleep apnea.
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