Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for heart disease to correct a duty to assist error, specifically to obtain a medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's ankle disorder aggravated his heart disease and to obtain relevant Federal worker's compensation records.
The deciding factor: A remand is necessary as the previous VA examiners' opinions were incomplete and did not address all aspects of the Veteran's claim, including causation and aggravation related to his service-connected ankle disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25101501
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