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
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,549 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for hepatitis C and remanded the claims for hypertension and a heart disability, to include CAD.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for GERD, and remanded the other issues for further development.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for right shoulder arthritis, left shoulder arthritis, left wrist arthritis, left foot arthritis, and heart disability, to include coronary artery disease (CAD), as the evidence was approximately evenly balanced in favor of the Veteran. The claims for diabetes mellitus and kidney disability were remanded for further development.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for a respiratory disability, to include pneumonia, and heart disabilities, to include CAD and heart valve disease, was dismissed due to concurrent elections being prohibited.
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