The Board remands the claims for service connection for brain thrombosis and brain hemorrhage, to include as secondary to a service-connected condition, due to an inadequate VA medical examination opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain an adequate medical examination and nexus opinion that considers whether it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's service-connected sleep apnea and/or heart condition caused or aggravated his stroke and claimed brain thrombosis and hemorrhage.
- Claimed conditions
- brain thrombosis, brain hemorrhage
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24065846
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.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's history of strokes and allegations of brain thrombosis.
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