The Board has remanded the case due to new evidence received from the Veteran, which suggests her pseudotumor cerebri may be related to her Reserve service. The RO needs to obtain her service treatment records and verify her periods of active duty for training (ACDUTRA).
The deciding factor: New evidence indicates a possible connection between the Veteran's pseudotumor cerebri and her Reserve service, specifically ACDUTRA.
- Claimed conditions
- pseudotumor cerebri
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19181834
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,050 · Granted: 23% (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).
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for right hip osteoarthritis, left hip osteoarthritis and labral tear (bilateral hip disability), pseudotumor cerebri, and tinnitus to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for further development, including obtaining additional medical evidence and examinations.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that additional development is needed for the Veteran's claims of service connection for cervical spine disorder, cervical radiculopathy of the right upper extremity, cervical radiculopathy of the left upper extremity, and pseudotumor cerebri. Specifically, an addendum opinion is required regarding whether these conditions are related to service, and a medical opinion is needed to clarify if the Veteran's pseudotumor cerebri may be related to service exposures.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for pseudotumor cerebri, finding that the Veteran's symptoms are reasonably shown to have had onset during her active-duty military service and linked to in-service manifestations of similar key symptoms.
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