The Board is remanding the claims for further development, including verification of service dates and additional service in 2003, as well as obtaining medical opinions regarding the onset of heart attack during ACDUTRA and its relationship to stress-related disability.
The deciding factor: The claims are intertwined and require clarification on the nature of the Veteran's service and potential additional service. Further development is needed to establish facts before a decision can be made.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a heart attack, stress-related disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 16, 2012
- Citation
- 1209869
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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The Veteran's appeal for service connection for residuals of a heart attack has been withdrawn, and the claim is dismissed.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a heart attack and hypertension, as these conditions are claimed to be secondary to his service-connected left shoulder disability. The Veteran was not afforded a VA examination in this regard.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for coronary artery disease, finding that there is not a causal relationship between his military service and his current condition.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's residuals of a heart attack are not secondary to his service-connected right shoulder disability, and thus denied the claim.
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