The Board has decided to remand the case due to an inadequate VA examination and a need for further analysis of the Veteran's liver condition.
The deciding factor: The July 2020 VA examination report was found to be incomplete and did not provide a comprehensive understanding of the Veteran's disability picture, including symptoms such as fatigue, malaise, nausea, or weight loss/anorexia.
- Claimed conditions
- alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 6, 2022
- Citation
- A22020441
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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.
- Denied
The Veteran's cause of death was not caused by a disability incurred or aggravated in service, and the Board denied the claim for service connection.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for alcoholic hepatitis and granted it, finding that new evidence supports a relationship between his current hepatitis C diagnosis and in-service risk factors.
- Partly granted
The Board found that the Veteran's death was not caused by his service-connected disability, but rather by a pre-existing condition (alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis). The DIC claim is denied as there was no service connection for the cause of death.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's death was not caused by any service-connected disability, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of death.
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