The Board has determined that further VA examinations and opinions are needed to resolve the Veteran's claims for service connection due to conflicting medical evidence and lack of definitive diagnoses.
The deciding factor: Further examination is required to establish a clear diagnosis and determine the etiology of the Veteran's claimed conditions, particularly given the conflicting nature of existing medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- sarcoidosis/respiratory symptoms, gout/joint pain
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 7, 2015
- Citation
- 1533695
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claim for gout/joint pain and hypertension has been granted.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for memory problems, fatigue, and gout or joint pain are denied as they do not meet the criteria for presumptive service connection due to undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction was denied as the evidence did not show that he had been diagnosed and manifested to at least a 10 percent disability rating on or prior to May 8, 2001.
- Granted
Service connection for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is granted. The appeal as to the issue of entitlement to service connection for erectile dysfunction is dismissed.
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