The Veteran's appeal is remanded for further development, including VA examinations to assess the severity of his kidney disability and diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: Further examination is needed to determine the current manifestations and impact of the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- absence of left kidney, cyst of right kidney
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 10, 2010
- Citation
- 1029816
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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 has determined that the veteran's current right kidney disability does not warrant a rating in excess of 30 percent.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's request for an increased rating for his absence of the left kidney, finding that there was no evidence of right kidney pathology or dysfunction.
- Granted
The Board found clear and unmistakable error in severing service connection for the absence of a left kidney, which was based on the assumption that the condition existed prior to service and did not worsen during service.
- 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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