The Board has decided to remand the case due to an inadequate examination, and the Veteran needs a new VA examination to determine if his carotid artery disease is related to service.
The deciding factor: The March 2013 examination was inadequate as it did not review the claims file or provide a diagnosis of etiology for the Veteran's carotid artery disease.
- Claimed conditions
- stenosis of carotid arteries, bilateral carotid endarterectomies
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2018
- Citation
- 18159471
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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
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for stenosis of carotid arteries, finding no evidence of such condition during or within one year after service and noting that it is not a presumptive disease associated with Agent Orange exposure.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the appellant's cardiovascular and peripheral arterial diseases are not related to his service, including exposure to ionizing radiation.,Service connection for ischemic heart disease, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, status post cardiac arrest, bypass surgery, left femoral artery cut down, angioplasty with cryoplasty femoral arteries, left femoral thromboendarterectomy, bilateral carotid endarterectomies, cardiac catherization/angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) L1 and peripheral artery disease has been denied.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for additional development, including referral to the Under Secretary for Benefits for an opinion on whether any current cardiovascular disability is related to the Veteran's documented in-service exposure to ionizing radiation. The claims will be readjudicated after this review.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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