The Board has remanded the issue of service connection for pulmonary hypertension due to insufficient evidence and need for additional development.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to determine if the Veteran served in Vietnam or had herbicide exposure, and obtain a medical opinion on the etiology of the condition.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary hypertension
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2020
- Citation
- 20005896
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 pulmonary hypertension as secondary to the Veteran's already service-connected idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for pulmonary hypertension and erectile dysfunction as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension, but denied service connection for lead poisoning and carbon monoxide poisoning. The Board also denied a compensable initial disability rating for hypertension and an increased initial disability rating for lumbosacral strain.
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