The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development to address his claims of service connection for kidney cysts and an increased rating for ischemic heart disease.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's claimed conditions, including whether they are related to service or herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral kidney cysts, right kidney lesion, adrenal adenoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2015
- Citation
- 1543167
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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.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for adrenal adenoma and WBC count abnormality, finding that there is no persuasive evidence to support these conditions as being related to active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for an adrenal adenoma is being remanded due to a duty to assist error. The AOJ needs to request complete copies of the treatment records submitted by the Veteran and obtain authorization from him to release these records.
- Granted
The Veteran's hypertension is related to acknowledged herbicide exposure in service and granted pursuant to the PACT Act. The issues of adrenal adenoma, BPH, essential thrombocythemia, MPN, polycythemia vera, renal lesion, and polymyalgia rheumatica are remanded for further examination and opinion regarding their relationship to herbicide exposure.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for benign scrotal cysts and bilateral kidney cysts, both of which were not found to be related to his exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.
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