Partly granted
The Board dismissed the claim for service connection for headaches and remanded claims for service connection for various other conditions, including open angle glaucoma, sensorineural hearing loss, asthma, heart disease, bladder cancer, and squamous cell carcinoma.
The deciding factor: Remand was necessary to obtain missing service treatment records and to address inadequate VA examinations that did not consider the Veteran's conceded toxic exposure risk activities (TERA).
- Claimed conditions
- headaches, open angle glaucoma, with presence of intraocular lens (IOL), right eye, open angle glaucoma, with presence of intraocular lens (IOL), left eye, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, asthma, arteriosclerotic heart disease, coronary artery disease, with coronary artery bypass, prosthesis, malignant neoplasm of bladder, squamous cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25109803
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