The Veteran's claim for service connection for BPH with LUTS and chronic prostatitis has been reopened, but the issue of entitlement to service connection remains pending. The Board has ordered a remand due to inadequate VA examination opinions regarding the etiology of the Veteran's lower urinary tract symptoms.
The deciding factor: The examinations provided by VA did not adequately address the origin of the Veteran's LUTS and failed to provide sufficient rationale for their conclusions, necessitating further investigation and opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), chronic prostatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2020
- Citation
- 20028293
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's chronic prostatitis was caused by his in-service renal contusion, and therefore grants service connection for this condition.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a 40% rating for chronic prostatitis effective March 18, 2019. He previously had a non-compensable rating from December 11, 1969, and increased to 20% in June 2004.
- Partly granted
Service connection for prostate cancer on an accrued basis was granted based on the benefit-of-the-doubt doctrine, finding competent and credible evidence at least approximately balanced between service-connected prostatitis and prostate cancer. Service connection was denied for stomach cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, the Veteran's cause of death, and dependency indemnity compensation benefits.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 60 percent disability rating for chronic prostatitis prior to July 30, 2021, and denied a higher rating from that date. The Board also granted entitlement to TDIU.
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