The Veteran's claim for service connection for a heart condition is being remanded due to the inadequacy of the January 2019 medical opinion and the need for an addendum examination.
The deciding factor: The Board found the January 2019 medical opinion inadequate as it did not address the in-service findings that could be related to the Veteran's current heart condition, specifically sinus bradycardia, first degree AV block with lateral infarct, and May 1997 'anterior ST abnormality cannot rule out ischemia.'
- Claimed conditions
- ventricular tachycardia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 4, 2023
- Citation
- A23027538
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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: Denied
The claim for payment of non-VA emergency medical care provided to the Veteran at William Beaumont Hospital from October 8, 2020, to October 11, 2020, was denied due to untimely filing.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's implantable cardiac pacemaker is granted as secondary to his service-connected atrial fibrillation. However, the Veteran's ventricular tachycardia is denied as not being related to his service-connected hypertension.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted an initial evaluation of 30 percent for the period from September 20, 2022 to June 13, 2023 and a 60 percent evaluation from October 1, 2023, but denied an earlier effective date prior to September 20, 2022.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for the service-connected ventricular tachycardia and granted an earlier effective date of August 10, 2022, but no earlier, for the assignment of the 10 percent disability rating for the service-connected sinusitis.
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