The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for further development, including a VA examination to assess the severity of his service-connected hemorrhoid disability and its association with fecal leakage.
The deciding factor: Further evidence is needed to determine if the Veteran’s impaired sphincter control should be rated separately from his service-connected hemorrhoid disability.
- Claimed conditions
- hemorrhoid disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19114629
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,196 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's hemorrhoid disability, finding that it began during her active duty and continues to persist since then.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a right knee disability and bilateral onychomycosis, as secondary to bilateral tinea pedis, while denying or remanding the other issues.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied an initial compensable rating for tension headaches. Several claims were remanded for further development.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hemorrhoid disability and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to the Veteran's active-duty service.
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