The Veteran's rosacea is rated at 10% and remanded for further development. The service connection claims for head injury, seizure disability, and cognitive disability are also remanded.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of a TBI or other claimed conditions in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- rosacea, head injury (claimed as TBI), seizure disability, cognitive disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2021
- Citation
- 21001428
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of the claim for service connection for a seizure disability due to new and relevant evidence being received, while remanding the claims for obstructive sleep apnea.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection for rosacea, GERD, chronic pain syndrome, and an acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disability, sleep disability, and heart murmur, bypass surgery and residuals. The claims for left knee, seizure, head injury, scar on the left cheek, cervical spine, and right hip disabilities were remanded for further development.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for a seizure disability to include convulsive disorder, seizure disorder, and generalized tonic-clonic convulsions due to an inadequate VA medical opinion.
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