Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities and an increased rating for skin cancer to correct duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: The claims are being remanded due to missing medical opinions on whether certain heart diseases, neurological conditions, and shoulder disabilities are related to in-service herbicide exposure or other factors such as airborne service.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disease other than ischemic heart disease - to include atrial fibrillation status post pacemaker surgery, bradycardia, aortic valve calcification, and mildly enlarged ascending aorta, carpal tunnel syndrome of the left upper extremity, carpal tunnel syndrome of the right upper extremity, residuals of ulnar nerve decompression surgery of the left upper extremity, right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25105036
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