Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and kidney failure with kidney transplant and dialysis to obtain additional medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinions were incomplete, lacking direct service connection opinions as directed in prior remands.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, kidney failure with kidney transplant and dialysis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2025
- Citation
- 25001030
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