The Board has remanded the claims of service connection for a heart condition and a seizure disorder due to incomplete records regarding the Veteran's service in the Army Reserve and Massachusetts Army National Guard. The claims will be reconsidered after obtaining relevant service treatment records.
The deciding factor: Incomplete service treatment records have been identified, which may affect the determination of whether the Veteran's current conditions are related to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- heart condition, seizure disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 9, 2018
- Citation
- 18141014
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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 GERD, a heart condition, hypertension, a kidney condition, and obstructive sleep apnea as there is no evidence of current disabilities related to these conditions or that they are etiologically linked to the Veteran's military service.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of October 1, 2021, for service connection for migraine headaches and seizure disorder but denied the same for PTSD with TBI.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for heart condition, hypertension, and residuals prostate cancer on a presumptive basis due to herbicide exposure under the PACT Act.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for sleep disturbances, to include obstructive sleep apnea, as secondary to an anxiety disorder. The increased rating claim for the anxiety disorder was denied, and the heart condition claim was dismissed.
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