The Veteran's service connection claims for various disabilities, including residuals of clival meningioma and related conditions, are being remanded due to her failure to report for a VA examination.
The deciding factor: The Veteran failed to appear for scheduled VA examinations multiple times, showing good cause for non-appearance in some cases.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of clival meningioma, left heel disability (claimed as boogie heel), left elbow pain, bilateral eye disability (to include right eye keratitis, right eye corneal abrasion, right eye epiphora, conjunctivitis, astigmatism, and refractive error), mastoidectomy, fevers, hypokalemia, scars, post meningiotomy, residuals of tracheotomy, and residual cerebrospinal fluid leak to lower back region, atalectasis, respiratory disability (to include pleural effusion, pneumocephalus, sinusitis, and upper respiratory infection), disability manifested by an abnormal echocardiogram (ECG), carotid duplex study, and unspecified percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube condition, cricopharingeal muscle hypertrophy (claimed as abnormal swallow and dysphagia), nausea, vomiting, and a nosebleed, urinary tract infection, disability manifested by groin pain, pelvic pain, and right lower extremity pain, skin disability (claimed as dry and itching skin), disability manifested by cysts on the lower back (claimed as bumps on the lower back), hyperthyroidism, transient cerebral ischemic attack (claimed transient ischemic attack related to birth control pills), headaches, right fifth cranial nerve (CN-V) disorder, right ninth cranial nerve (CN-IX) disorder, dental disability (to include gingivitis)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19123372
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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 determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete development of records and will provide a supplemental statement of the case if necessary.
- Partly granted
The Board has not made a final determination on the claims of service connection for inguinal hernia, PTSD, joint pain, fibromyalgia, left knee disability, right knee disability, tinnitus, chronic fatigue syndrome, respiratory disability, sleep disorder, IBS, and headaches. The claims are remanded to obtain additional evidence and determine if these conditions are related to service.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for headaches was reopened due to new and material evidence, and the Board found that his current headaches are related to service. Service connection is granted.
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