The Veteran's CIDP is presumed due to herbicide exposure in service. However, the Board finds conflicting medical opinions and remands for a VA examination to clarify whether CIDP is related to his presumed herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: Conflicting medical opinions regarding the relationship between CIDP and presumed herbicide exposure require further clarification through a VA examination.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20047856
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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.
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The Veteran's CIDP is granted as service connected due to presumed exposure in the Gulf War theater of operations.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a neurological disability, to include peripheral neuropathy and/or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), due to in-service Agent Orange exposure.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and the Board dismissed the appeal.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) based on the evidence in favor of the Veteran's claim.
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