Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for further development, including new examinations and medical opinions to clarify diagnoses and establish a nexus between the claimed conditions and service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to duty-to-assist errors, including the need for clarification of diagnoses and new medical opinions addressing potential aggravation by service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- esophageal disability, to include hernia hiatal, heart disability, to include coronary artery disease (CAD), intestinal disability, to include irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), unintentional weight loss secondary to service-connected TMJ
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2025
- Citation
- A25107027
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