The Board remands the claim for service connection for sinus bradycardia to obtain an addendum medical opinion addressing direct service connection and secondary service connection.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to a duty to assist error and to address inextricably intertwined issues of direct and secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Sinus bradycardia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25055151
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
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