The Board has determined that additional development is needed to determine the cause of the Veteran's death and whether his service-connected conditions contributed to it. Specifically, a VA examiner will be asked to provide opinions regarding the relationship between the Veteran's cerebral vascular disease and active military service, including exposure at Camp Lejeune, as well as its impact on his supranuclear ophthalmoplegia.
The deciding factor: The Board found that further clarification is needed due to incomplete information about the cause of death and the contribution of service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- supranuclear ophthalmoplegia, cerebral vascular disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2023
- Citation
- 23014058
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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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates of March 29, 2016, for the grants of service connection for multiple conditions including hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, scars, kidney disease, femoral artery occlusion, lacunar stroke, erectile dysfunction, cerebral vascular disease, and valvular heart disease.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his service-connected residuals of a compression fracture of the T-12 spinal segment did not contribute to or accelerate his death from colon cancer with metastases, renal failure, and cerebral vascular disease.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's hypertension is granted as service connected, and it is also found to be secondary to his service-connected coronary artery disease.,The Veteran's coronary artery disease, cardiovascular disease, and quadruple bypass surgery are granted as secondary to his service-connected hypertension.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claim for service connection for cerebral vascular disease as moot because it was granted in a previous rating decision, and there is no further relief available.
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