The Veteran's appeals for service connection for hypertensive vascular disease and eye injury have been withdrawn. The Board has also remanded the issue of service connection for sleep apnea.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeal regarding service connection for hypertensive vascular disease and eye injury, and the Board found that VA’s duty to obtain an examination as to the nature and etiology of any current sleep apnea is triggered due to the Veteran's contention of in-service symptoms and continuity of symptomatology.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive vascular disease, eye injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19179561
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 claim for service connection for hypertensive vascular disease due to a lack of substantial compliance with previous remand directives.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, for purposes of entitlement to dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC), due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for hypertensive vascular disease was dismissed, while service connection for reactive airway disease (claimed as restrictive lung disease) was granted. The appeals for sleep apnea, left knee disability, and right knee disability were remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the veteran's claims for further development, including obtaining additional evidence and providing an examination.
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