The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence and needs further examination and opinion regarding the Veteran's loss of peripheral vision.
The deciding factor: The claim is being remanded because additional testing, including visual field and ERG tests, is needed to determine the etiology of the Veteran's loss of peripheral vision.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of peripheral vision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2017
- Citation
- 1715984
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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 denied service connection for loss of peripheral vision, finding that the Veteran did not sustain an eye injury during service and that his current condition is more likely related to a non-service connected brain aneurysm in 2000.
- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequately explained rationales in previous decisions and incomplete development of certain issues, including service connection for low back injury, PTSD, and loss of peripheral vision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case for additional development, including obtaining clarification or a new examination regarding service connection claims for low back injury, PTSD, and loss of peripheral vision.
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