The Board remands the claims for service connection for pleural effusion, pericarditis, chronic, lung changes, left, lung scarring, left, and pericardial effusion to obtain additional medical evidence.
The deciding factor: Additional medical evidence is needed to determine if the claimed conditions are related to military service or a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- pleural effusion, pericarditis, chronic, lung changes, left, lung scarring, left, pericardial effusion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25055991
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.
- Granted
The Board granted the restoration of a 100 percent evaluation for pericarditis and special monthly compensation based on housebound criteria, effective November 1, 2024.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an initial rating of 30 percent for right and left lower extremity residuals of cold injury disability from April 5, 2011 to August 8, 2023, but denied a higher rating thereafter. The claims for increased ratings were remanded for further development.
- Dismissed
The appeal of the October 2022 rating decision finding no new and relevant evidence to readjudicate the claim for service connection for myocardial infarction, myocarditis, and pericarditis was dismissed as procedurally defective.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for lung scarring and remanded the other issues for further development.
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