The Board has ordered a remand due to the need for further examination and opinion regarding the relationship between the Veteran's service-connected bronchitis and her claimed cardiac arrhythmias. The case will be returned for readjudication.
The deciding factor: Further medical evaluation is required to determine if the Veteran's paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia is proximately caused or aggravated by her service-connected allergic bronchitis, including medications used to treat it.
- Claimed conditions
- paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmias
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 14, 2012
- Citation
- 1231650
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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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