The Board has decided that the Veteran's claims for service connection are remanded due to missing treatment records and the need for additional development.
The deciding factor: Missing or incomplete medical records prevent a determination on the merits of the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- detached retina, right eye, aneurysm of the lower aortic, aneurism of the right-side heart, heart disability (to include bypass surgery, congestive heart failure, and acute infarction), Parkinson’s disease, lymphoma with chemotherapy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2018
- Citation
- 18115126
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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 an aneurysm of the lower aortic, finding that there was no evidence linking it to service and concluding that the condition is not related to military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate compliance with prior remand instructions and insufficient medical opinions regarding the etiology of the Veteran's aneurysm of the lower aortic.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issue of service connection for aneurysm of the lower aortic due to lack of contemporaneous records documenting complaints or treatment. A new examination opinion is required from a cardiologist.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for Parkinson's disease, a heart disability, and lymphoma with chemotherapy due to in-service exposure to an herbicide agent.,Service connection was also denied for aneurysm of the right-side heart. The Veteran did not have this condition during his lifetime.
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