The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding whether the additional disability was proximately caused by an event not reasonably foreseeable.
The deciding factor: The risk of graft/limb occlusion is known but its occurrence rate varies, and it's unclear if this constitutes a foreseeable risk in informed consent procedures.
- Claimed conditions
- blood clots in the legs, occlusion of aortic graft stent with emergency axillobifemoral bypass, bilateral compartment fasciotomies, sensory loss in the lower extremities, scarring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19195572
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Decisions by this judge: 1,037 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
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- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for scarring was dismissed due to a procedural error.
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