The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for respiratory, bronchial, throat, and migraine disorders due to additional development being needed. The Veteran's claims are currently pending.
The deciding factor: Additional medical opinions are required to address the nature and etiology of the claimed conditions as well as their relationship to service-connected sinusitis and/or allergic rhinitis.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory disorder, bronchial disorder, throat disorder, migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 6, 2022
- Citation
- 22032941
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to incomplete medical records and insufficient opinions regarding the relationship between service, including a stick injury in England, and current left eye disability (including amblyopia and cataracts) as well as migraine headaches.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches are productive of very frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks capable of producing severe economic inadaptability. The Board has granted a 50 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for his service-connected migraine headaches was granted with an effective date of February 28, 2023.
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