The Veteran's bladder disorder and multiple tooth extractions are being remanded for further development of records and an opinion regarding their etiology.
The deciding factor: The claims involve determining the relationship between current disabilities and service, which requires obtaining additional medical records and expert opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder disorder, Multiple tooth extractions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 9, 2019
- Citation
- 19126558
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 granted service connection for a bladder disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for further evidentiary development and to obtain additional medical opinions.
- Dismissed
The appeals for service connection for a bladder disorder, CFS, foot pain, and IBS were dismissed as untimely. The appeals for GERD, migraine headaches, thorax pain, and right knee disorder were remanded to correct duty to assist errors.
- Denied
The Veteran's bladder disorder with residual scar is not service-connected under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 because the additional disability was a reasonably foreseeable complication of his uroscopy and stone removal, for which he provided informed consent.
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