Remanded (sent back)
The appeal for service connection of non-rheumatic mitral valve disease is remanded. The Board needs more information from private medical records and a new opinion.
The deciding factor: The Board remanded the case due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including failure to obtain relevant private treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- non-rheumatic mitral valve disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25002140
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