Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for a heart disability, diagnosed as congestive heart failure (CHF), due to a duty to assist error and the need for a new medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion is inadequate because it did not discuss documented evidence of chest pain with 'pleural disease' and sinus arrhythmia in service that occurred almost four years apart, and a TERA medical opinion has not been obtained.
- Claimed conditions
- Congestive heart failure (CHF)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25090704
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