Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for right and left lower extremity peripheral neuropathies due to a lack of substantial compliance with previous remand directives.
The deciding factor: There was not an adequate medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's hypertension aggravated his lower extremity peripheral neuropathies, as required by the Board's December 2023 remand.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2025
- Citation
- 25002395
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