The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for an eye condition and a prostate condition due to inadequate medical opinions provided in previous decisions. The Veteran is seeking service connection for PVD and BPH, which are currently diagnosed conditions.
The deciding factor: Previous medical opinions were deemed inadequate as they did not address whether the Veteran's current diagnoses of PVD and BPH are related to his military service, specifically boxing during active duty and complaints of discomfort at scrotum with pain, bleeding, nausea, and difficulty voiding while on active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD), Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2023
- Citation
- 23047533
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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
Related decisions
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- Granted
The Veteran's BPH symptoms met the criteria for a 60 percent disability rating as of September 16, 2021.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD is granted. The Board finds that the Veteran's PTSD is due to his active-duty service and supports this conclusion with a medical opinion linking the condition to his military experiences. The Veteran's claim for service connection for BPH is remanded as there are errors in the development of evidence related to exposure at Camp Lejeune.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for BPH, finding that the Veteran's condition is not one of the listed presumptive diseases associated with herbicide exposure / Agent Orange. The evidence was approximately balanced on whether the Veteran's asthma first manifested during service or developed over time as a result of his presumed in-service exposure to Agent Orange.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) as the evidence did not establish a direct relationship to service, including exposure to herbicide agents. The Veteran's LUTS was attributed to benign prostatic hyperplasia which is not service-connected.
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