The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining updated VA treatment records and scheduling the Veteran for a VA examination to assess his current condition.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that further evidence and medical evaluation are needed before the issues can be properly adjudicated.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative splenectomy, status post left pneumothorax, abdominal scar, status post splenectomy, scars due to multiple stab wounds, intestinal adhesions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0942151
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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 claim for a rating in excess of 30 percent for postoperative splenectomy was denied. The maximum schedular rating available is 20 percent, which is the current evaluation.
- Partly granted
The veteran's case involves two main issues: his eligibility for a permanent and total disability evaluation for pension purposes, and whether the injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident on August 24, 1996 were due to willful misconduct. The Board has determined that some of his disabilities are the result of willful misconduct, but the case is remanded for further development regarding all of his disabilities.
- Granted
The Board found that the veteran's intestinal adhesions are related to his military service, and granted his claim for service connection.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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