Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a heart condition to obtain new direct and secondary service connection opinions.
The deciding factor: The examiner failed to consider whether the Veteran's service-connected illness, to include GERD, is etiologically related to the Veteran's heart condition.
- Claimed conditions
- heart condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091203
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