The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for pernicious anemia, to include vitamin deficiency, as an adequate medical opinion has not been obtained.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion is inadequate because it relies solely on the absence of documentation in the service treatment records and does not address or discuss the Veteran's reports of symptoms during and after service.
- Claimed conditions
- pernicious anemia, to include vitamin deficiency
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2024
- Citation
- 24002850
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.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and pernicious anemia, and the Board dismissed both appeals.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for pernicious anemia, finding no evidence of a nexus between the condition and his active-duty service or his service-connected normocytic normochromic anemia.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for pernicious anemia, finding that the Veteran's condition was incurred in or caused by active-duty service.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeal for not timely submitting a Notice of Disagreement (NOD) within one year from the date of the mailing of an adverse decision.
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