Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for congestive heart failure to obtain additional medical records and further development.
The deciding factor: The October 2024 VA examiner's opinion raised a duty for VA to attempt to acquire complete hospital records from December 2015, which are necessary to determine the matter of service connection on a secondary basis.
- Claimed conditions
- Congestive heart failure (CHF)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2025
- Citation
- 25002674
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