The Board has remanded the claims for initial ratings in excess of 10 percent for left and right patellofemoral degenerative joint disease, as well as the claim for TDIU due to outstanding medical records not being available.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed to obtain outstanding medical records and associated them with the claims file.
- Claimed conditions
- left patellofemoral degenerative joint disease, right patellofemoral degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20046357
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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
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- Granted
The Veteran's current left knee disability, characterized as left patellofemoral degenerative joint disease, is etiologically related to a left knee injury sustained during INACDUTRA in 2003. The Board finds that service connection for this condition is granted.
- Partly granted
The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim of service connection for a low back disability. The effective dates for the award of service connection for recurrent left patellar subluxation and for a 10% rating for left patellofemoral degenerative joint disease remain August 28, 2008.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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