The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for left and right leg chronic venous insufficiency due to inadequate medical opinions in the May 2023 Rating Decision. The Veteran's bilateral conditions are being reviewed on a direct basis, without presumptive or secondary theories.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions were insufficient to establish a link between the Veteran's service-connected fibromyalgia and his current chronic venous insufficiency diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- left leg chronic venous insufficiency, right leg chronic venous insufficiency
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 8, 2026
- Citation
- A26032104
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for left leg, right leg chronic venous insufficiency and severe swelling of both hands due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error in not obtaining records from Mary Washington Hospital. Additional VA examinations are needed.
- Partly granted
The Board granted the petitions to reopen claims for service connection for left and right leg chronic venous insufficiency and tinnitus, but remanded other related issues for further development.
- Denied
The Board denied an increased disability rating higher than 40 percent for the service-connected left leg disability, finding that the current severity of symptoms did not warrant a higher rating.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection of right leg chronic venous insufficiency, finding that it was not incurred in or caused by active duty service.
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