The Board has remanded the cases for further examination and opinion regarding service connection for heart disability and visual disability, as they are related to herbicide agent exposure. The examiner is asked to determine if any of these disabilities are due to a presumptive disease or directly related to service.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's heart disability may be due to a presumptively associated disease (hypertension/ischemic heart disease) from herbicide agent exposure, and the examiner should assess whether other heart disabilities are proximately due to this presumptive disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disability, Visual disability
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 16, 2023
- Citation
- 23009958
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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.
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