The Board has decided to remand the cases for further development and consideration due to inadequate VA medical opinions regarding the service connection of chronic nonspecific colitis, mild chronic gastritis, and severe chronic ileitis with focal low grade epithelial dysplasia.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions provided were found to be inadequate as they did not address the private medical opinion submitted by the Veteran and the medical literature suggesting a connection between small bowel disease and radiation therapy used for Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic nonspecific colitis, mild chronic gastritis, severe chronic ileitis with focal low grade epithelial dysplasia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2024
- Citation
- A24070593
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Decisions by this judge: 833 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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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.
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