The Board has remanded the issues of whether service connection for peripheral arterial disease should be severed from the Veteran's record due to lack of a clear and unmistakable error in initial grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners' opinions are not strong enough to establish that there is no nexus between the current diagnoses and service, which is necessary to sever service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Right Lower Extremity, Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Left Lower Extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19125664
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,062 · Granted: 34% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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 has denied the Veteran's claims for initial compensable and higher evaluations for peripheral arterial disease of both lower extremities, finding that the evidence does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation based on objective testing.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found that another remand is necessary to ensure compliance with previous remand instructions regarding the Veteran's current lower extremity diagnoses.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for peripheral arterial disease of the bilateral lower extremities, finding that it is proximately due or aggravated by his service-connected ischemic heart disease. The issue of TDIU was also remanded.
- 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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