The Board has remanded the case due to an inadequate VA examination and the need for additional treatment records. The Veteran's bilateral lower extremity vascular disability is being reviewed again to determine if it was caused or aggravated by his service-connected urticaria with eczema.
The deciding factor: The August 2017 VA examiner did not consider the Veteran's diagnoses of Schamberg's disease and mast cell activation syndrome, which may have affected the diagnosis of his bilateral lower extremity vascular disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral lower extremity vascular disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2022
- Citation
- 22005042
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
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