The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for bilateral eye disability and benign prostatic hypertrophy due to inadequate medical opinions regarding their relationship to service. The claims are being returned for further development.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided were not adequate in addressing whether the current diagnoses of the Veteran's bilateral eye disabilities and benign prostatic hypertrophy had their clinical onset during service or were related to an event or incident of his period of active service.
- Claimed conditions
- proliferative diabetic retinopathy, dry eye syndrome, glaucoma, pseudophakia, vitreous hemorrhage
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2022
- Citation
- 22063328
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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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- Denied
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