The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate medical examination and failure to obtain private treatment records.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations provided incomplete opinions regarding the Veteran's service connection claims for arterial hypertension and generalized anxiety disorder with depressive features, and failed to consider all relevant evidence including private treatment records from Dr. R. Cervantes.
- Claimed conditions
- arterial hypertension, generalized anxiety disorder with depressive features
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 1, 2011
- Citation
- 1104100
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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
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