The Board remands the claims for an eye condition and a prostate condition to obtain additional medical opinions that address the Veteran's in-service boxing and martial arts activities, as well as his complaints of discomfort during service.
The deciding factor: The previous medical opinions were deemed inadequate due to their failure to properly address the Veteran's assertions regarding trauma during military service and overlapping symptoms between prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
- Claimed conditions
- eye condition, to include glaucoma, cataracts, and posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), prostate condition, to include benign prostatic hyperplasia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2023
- Citation
- 23001862
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.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for cataracts, finding that there was no medical evidence linking the condition to his active service or a service-connected disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
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