The Board has remanded the case for an additional medical opinion to determine if the Veteran's pseudomonas infection, right orchiectomy and scrotal resection, and prostate resection resulted from VA cystoscopy and prostate biopsy. The opinion should address whether the disability was proximately caused by carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is unclear and inconsistent regarding when the pseudomonas infection occurred after the March 2014 procedures. The Veteran's history of urinary tract infections and prostate symptomatology predating the March 2014 procedures complicates the determination.
- Claimed conditions
- pseudomonas infection, right orchiectomy, scrotal resection, prostate resection
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2021
- Citation
- 21032883
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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
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the issues of whether severance for the grant of service connection for right orchiectomy and entitlement to SMC K on account of anatomical loss of a creative organ is proper due to an inadequate medical opinion in the original decision.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for an initial compensable rating for pseudomonas infection has been dismissed due to the withdrawal of the appeal by his authorized representative.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for a VA genitourinary medical opinion regarding whether his remaining testicle is nonfunctioning. The claim will be readjudicated after obtaining this information.
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