Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for carotid artery disease due to multiple pre-decisional duty to assist errors and inadequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain private treatment records and an adequate medical opinion addressing causation and aggravation of CAD by hypertension and diabetes, as well as secondary service connection for hypertension with left ventricular hypotrophy due to Agent Orange exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- carotid artery disease (CAD), hypertension with left ventricular hypotrophy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091417
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