The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional medical inquiry and examination to determine the etiology of his claimed conditions, including glaucoma, stroke residuals, and circulatory disorders of the legs. The claims will be readjudicated after these actions.
The deciding factor: Additional medical evaluation is required to properly assess the Veteran's service connection claims.
- Claimed conditions
- glaucoma, residuals of stroke, circulatory disorders of the legs
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 8, 2010
- Citation
- 1013474
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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 Board denied service connection for glaucoma and macular degeneration, finding that the evidence did not support a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's military service.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for residuals of stroke, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected intermittent explosive disorder.
- Partly granted
The Board granted reconsideration of the issues of entitlement to service connection for basal cell carcinoma, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and bilateral upper and lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The claims for these conditions were previously denied but are now being readjudicated due to new evidence.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for glaucoma and insomnia, finding that the evidence did not support a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's military service.
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