The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including a VA genitourinary examination to assess the current severity of his prostatitis with right epididymitis. The AMC should also consider the assignment of an extra-schedular evaluation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claim requires further evidence and consideration due to recent allegations of worsening symptoms and additional treatment since his last VA examination more than four years ago.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic prostatitis with recurrent right epididymitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 14, 2014
- Citation
- 1410864
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted a 70 percent rating for chronic prostatitis with recurrent right epididymitis, effective August 12, 2009, on an extraschedular basis. The Veteran's claim for TDIU is also remanded.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient reasons and bases for the evaluation of the Veteran's service-connected prostatitis disability, specifically regarding whether an extraschedular rating is warranted.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's service-connected chronic prostatitis with recurrent right epididymitis is currently rated at 60 percent, the maximum schedular rating for voiding dysfunction. The Board finds that an evaluation in excess of 60 percent is not warranted as there is no evidence of renal dysfunction or other factors indicating an exceptional disability picture.
- Whole decision: 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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