The Board has determined that the Veteran's claim for service connection for nephropathy must be remanded due to insufficient medical opinions regarding its etiology and relationship to service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not address whether nephropathy is directly related to service or if it was caused by or aggravated by a service-connected disability, specifically diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- nephropathy, diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 6, 2015
- Citation
- 1533469
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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.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for nephropathy as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus type II.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for a higher rating for various conditions, including lumbar spine disability and peripheral neuropathies, due to an incomplete record of private treatment records.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal seeking service connection for nephropathy during a Board hearing.
- Partly granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for the award of service connection for peripheral neuropathy and ischemic heart disease, but denied an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction.
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