The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim for service connection for a liver condition, including as due to porphyria cutanea tarda or service-connected disability. The case will be reviewed with consideration of all possible service-connected disabilities and their potential impact on the liver condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner is required to consider the possibility that the Veteran's liver condition may have been caused by his service-connected diabetes mellitus type II, leading to a determination regarding whether it was aggravated by this disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Liver condition, Porphyria cutanea tarda
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19129607
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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the service connection claim for a liver condition due to insufficient evidence regarding its etiology, specifically requiring an additional VA examination.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, a left knee disability, alcohol abuse disorder, and a liver condition as there was no evidence of current disabilities or in-service incurrence.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for basal cell carcinoma, leukocytosis, and liver condition but granted reinstatement of a 40% rating for right and left knee limitations of extension effective November 1, 2024.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a liver condition to obtain an addendum opinion addressing the Veteran's service connection theory.
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