The Veteran's bilateral blindness is being remanded for clarification of the relationship between his service-connected generalized anxiety with dementia and his current vision impairment.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to clarify whether the Veteran's blindness is causally related to his service-connected disability (generalized anxiety with dementia).
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral blindness, generalized anxiety with dementia secondary to traumatic brain injury
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 24, 2013
- Citation
- 1323667
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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 withdrew his appeal, and the Board has dismissed it.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection for prostate cancer, bilateral blindness, left leg amputation, and right leg amputation were dismissed as untimely. The issues are moot due to a full grant of benefits in another appeal stream.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral blindness, resolving all reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.
- Granted
The Veteran's bilateral blindness, left leg amputation, and right leg amputation are granted as service-connected. The claim for prostate cancer is remanded.
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