The Board is remanding the cases for obtaining missing treatment records from the Saginaw VAMC and any VA treatment records from December 2015 to the present regarding bladder and bowel incontinence.
The deciding factor: Missing medical records are required to make an accurate determination of the Veteran's conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder incontinence, Bowel incontinence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 5, 2018
- Citation
- 18108658
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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: Denied
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus type II and related conditions have been granted initial disability ratings, effective December 9, 2014. The appeal for earlier effective dates is denied.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for bowel incontinence, finding no evidence that it was caused or aggravated by his service-connected hemorrhoids.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied an increased rating for urinary incontinence and granted restoration of the 30 percent rating for bowel incontinence, while denying an earlier effective date for service connection.
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