The appeal for service connection for a spleen condition is remanded due to a duty-to-assist error and the need for a medical examination.
The deciding factor: Remand required due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error and the need for a medical opinion addressing secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- spleen condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 18, 2025
- Citation
- A25025020
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,455 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 30 percent initial disability rating for chronic sinusitis and denied service connection for several other conditions, including right knee strain, obesity, degenerative arthritis, and others. Some claims were remanded for further consideration.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the veteran's appeals for migraine headaches, hypertension, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), nausea/intestinal irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and sleep disturbances because they were not filed on the proper form. The claim for service connection for a spleen condition was denied.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection of various conditions, including a spleen condition, obstructive sleep apnea, pituitary adenoma (claimed as brain tumor), diabetes mellitus type II, and hemorrhoids have been denied. The Board found no evidence to support the Veteran's claims.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for further development and examination. The Veteran's hyperlipidemia is not service-connected as it does not meet the criteria for a disability under VA regulations. For the other conditions, the Board found that additional evidence and clarification are needed to determine their relationship to service.
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