BVA Decisions on Heart

105 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving heart — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decisions, each labeled with its court. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

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• CAVCCase 12-2616 — Remanded / Reversed / Vacated 1969-04-01
  The appellant and, on remand,the Board determined the RO decision to be void ab initio,and the 10%was restored,effective April 1, 1969....
• CAVCCase 23-6651 — Affirmed 2024-08-21
  In the October 2023 decision on appeal,the Board denied entitlement to benefits for degenerative arthritis;lumbosacral disc degeneration with herniated disc and moderate stenosis a...
• CAVCCase 11-3732 — Affirmed / Remanded 2011-05-02
  The Board denied disability compensation for headaches,noting that (1)evidence demonstrating headaches in service related the headaches to the appellant's sinus problems, and the a...
• CAVCCase 96-1214 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 1999-02-11
  In the May 28, 1996, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied service connection for wounds of the lower extremities, frostbite of the feet, a skin disorder of the feet, heari...
• CAVCCase 94-503 — Affirmed 1997-11-05
  The appellant, appeals a March 16, 1994, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) that denied a claim of service connection for a right hip disability after determ...
• CAVCCase 23-2226 — Remanded 2024-07-31
  The appellant ,through counsel,appeals a March 3,2023, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied entitlement to service connection for (1)obstructive slee...
• CAVCCase 14-3126 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-09-04
  As an initial matter,the Board found that VA had satisfied its duty to assist because VA had conducted all development necessary to substantiate the claims....
• CAVCCase 22-1946 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-09-16
  VA advised him that the claim was previously denied in February 1981 and that he needed to submit new and material evidence to reopen it....
• CAVCCase 15-3657 — Remanded / Vacated / Reversed / Affirmed 2015-05-28
  Finally,the Board denied effective dates earlier than March 5,2009,for the grants of service connection for right ear hearing loss and tinnitus....
• CAVCCase 13-0540 — Vacated / Remanded 2015-02-09
  On appeal,the appellant contends that the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases for rejecting his testimony concerning the continuity of his symptoms af...
• CAVCCase 22-3160 — Affirmed 2022-02-03
  In an April 2019 decision, the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than August 17,2011,for the grant of TDIU for accrued-benefits purposes....
• CAVCCase 22-464 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-10-28
  The appellant , through counsel,appeals an October 28,2021,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied service connection for a disability manifested by me...
• CAVCCase 23-3528 — Unknown 2024-05-13
  The appellant,appeals the May 9, 2023,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for a heart disability....
• CAVCCase 10-1922 — Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed 2010-05-26
  Because the Secretary concedes,and the Court agrees, that the Board provided inadequate reasons or bases for its determination that new and material evidence had not been received,...
• CAVCCase 23-0038 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2022-05-09
  In response to a claim received on March 15,2018, 4 a VA regional office (RO) denied service connection for both diabetes and anxiety based on a lack of new and material evidence,a...
• CAVCCase 17-3373 — Affirmed 2017-07-21
  The Board found that service connection was not warranted because the appellant did not exhibit a bilateral hearing loss disability for VA purposes....
• CAVCCase 12-885 — Vacated / Remanded 2011-11-22
  In doing so,the Board found that the appellant's military occupational specialty and personnel records ....
• CAVCCase 94-661 — Reversed / Vacated 1997-03-07
  In order to conduct meaningful research, the veteran must provide the "who, what, where[,] and when" of each stressor....
• CAVCCase 94-0927 — Affirmed / Reversed 1992-02-21
  As was the case in Ramey, the BVA decision here was issued prior to the Combee opinion, and the BVA failed to address the question of direct service connection....
• CAVCCase 23-0092 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-11-17
  The Board found that the April 2015 VA medical opinion address[ing]whether the [v]eteran's current endocrine conditions and hypertension were related to his service-connected diabe...
• CAVCCase 13-580 — Vacated / Remanded 2013-01-10
  5103A(a), whether the Secretary's duty to assist required VA to obtain a medical opinion (R....
• CAVCCase 21-7788 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-08-13
  The RO also denied the petition to reopen the claim for service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome and explained that the evidence submitted in connection with the current cla...
• CAVCCase 24-293 — Remanded 2025-05-30
  Specifically,the Board noted that the appellant reported to have received treatment for all his claim conditions at Munson Army Health Center in Ft....
• CAVCCase 18-5936 — Remanded / Vacated 2018-07-02
  l the negative clinical opinions of record that found that appellant's right shoulder disability is not service connected....
• CAVCCase 07-1008 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated 2007-03-09
  The appellant,through counsel,appeals a March 9, 2007,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for entitlement to service connection for a ba...
• CAVCCase 23-2629 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-05-20
  The examiner determined that the appellant's condition was less likely than not related to service and provided the following rationale: No chronic diagnosis is made for thyroidism...
• CAVCCase 02-1077 — Vacated 2005-04-14
  In an addendum, the VA physician opined: This veteran's CAD is more likely than not related to both his long[]standing smoking and his [hypertension (HPT)]....
• CAVCCase 18-4475 — Denied / Dismissed / Remanded 2017-12-20
  The appellant appeals,pro se,a December 20,2017,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that denied revision of an April 19,2013,Board decision based on clear and unmistakable er...
• CAVCCase 24-0597 — Reversed 2025-04-29
  In a July 2010 Statement of the Case (SOC),the AOJ again declined to reopen claims for service connection for a bilateral knee condition and back condition,finding no new and mater...
• CAVCCase 94-1080 — Affirmed / Vacated 1996-11-26
  Subsequently, the RO and then the Board denied service connection for residuals of a head injury....
• CAVCCase 24-2877 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2025-05-23
  The appellant underwent a VA examination for artery and vein conditions in May 2023; the examiner opined that there was no pathology to warrant an upper extremity PVD diagnosis;he ...
• CAVCCase 20-3955 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-02-13
  The Board denied entitlement to (1)a disability rating in excess of 10%for left knee meniscectomy under Diagnostic Code 5257; (2)a rating in excess of 10%for limitation of left kne...
• CAVCCase 04-0584 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed / Reversed 2009-10-02
  In my opinion he is allergic to certain paints and vapo[r]and these occa[s]ional respiratory symptoms are not related to the exposure of fumes in Gulf War....
• CAVCCase 19-5987 — Affirmed 2019-05-13
  The appellant ,through counsel appeals a May 13, 2019,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen previousl...
• CAVCCase 23-3920 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2024-09-24
  The RO and the Board found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the back claim....
• CAVCCase 23-1100 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-08-29
  at 703-04 (determining that a May 2021 VA medical opinion did not comply with the prior remand in part because the examiner did not address the appellant's weight changes);R....
• CAVCCase 20-7178 — Affirmed 2020-06-25
  In the June 2020 decision on appeal,the Board denied an initial disability rating greater than 50%for PTSD and an effective date earlier than November 16,2012,for the award of SMC(...
• CAVCCase 23-4291 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-12-30
  The Board found that [t]he [v]eteran's PTSD more nearly approximated occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, and the Board noted that his symp...
• CAVCCase 21-0226 — Vacated / Remanded 2023-04-17
  In the November 2020 decision on appeal,the Board denied entitlement to an effective date prior to September 5,2018,for the award of benefits for CAD....
• CAVCCase 11-1074 — Vacated / Remanded 2011-01-14
  Based upon these facts,and a discharge examination revealing no pulmonary abnormalities ,the physician concluded that the veteran had mild asbestosis but that it was more likely th...
• CAVCCase 14-0635 — Affirmed 2014-01-02
  He contends that VA failed to satisfy its duty to assist him by gathering relevant documents and providing an adequate medical nexus opinion....
• CAVCCase 12-2187 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2012-03-21
  The appellant's current hearing loss was less likely as not related to or caused by in-service noise exposure....
• CAVCCase 23-4881 — Unknown 2025-01-30
  In his initial brief,the appellant argued that in dismissing his claims,the Board failed to comply with the Court's January 2023 remand instructions and thus left his claims unreso...
• CAVCCase 10-2287 — Affirmed 2010-03-16
  The appellant ,appeals through counsel that part of the March 16,2010,decision of the Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)that determined that new and material evidence had not been p...
• CAVCCase 19-8155 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-08-13
  In his informal brief, the appellant does not challenge the Board's denial of an earlier effective date for the award of benefits of bilateral instability of the knees,or the Board...
• CAVCCase 19-9098 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2019-09-24
  VA afforded the appellant a medical examination in May 2011;the examiner opined that the appellant's history of noise exposure has no bearing on the diagnosis of Menier[e]'s diseas...
• CAVCCase 93-644 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 1995-04-14
  In February 1987, the RO confirmed its October 1986 denial of service connection for heart disease, finding that the evidence submitted was "not new and material"....
• CAVCCase 03-2135 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated 2003-08-19
  innitus (a noise in the ears such as ringing, buzzing, roaring, or clicking), and (3) found that no new and material evidence had been presented to reopen his service- connection b...
• CAVCCase 17-1531 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-03-28
  In addition, the Board denied entitlement to higher evaluations for bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy as well as entitlement to earlier effective dates for the awards...
• CAVCCase 19-2640 — Reversed / Affirmed / Vacated 2021-04-16
  at 79,and he contended that when assigning the effective date VA had failed to consider and correctly apply 38 C....
• CAVCCase 10-0826 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2010-01-15
  clearly erred in concluding that VA satisfied its duty to assist the appellant....
• CAVCCase 18-6734 — Affirmed 2018-11-01
  In the decision here on appeal the Board denied service connection for each of the claimed conditions....
• CAVCCase 21-0372 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-10-07
  Also,in denying a higher rating for coronary artery disease,the Board noted that the appellant's reporting of his symptoms is credible....
• CAVCCase 23-0076 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-10-25
  In September 2015,the appellant underwent VA examinations for his back and neck;the examiner provided negative nexus opinions,noting in part that the record shows that the appellan...
• CAVCCase 13-0949 — Vacated / Remanded 2013-02-28
  Although most of his service medical records (SMRs)were destroyed in the 1973 fire at the 1 The Board also remanded the issue of whether new and material evidence had been received...
• CAVCCase 96-1726 — Reversed / Vacated 1996-12-04
  In the BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied his claims on the basis that his claims for hypertension and muscular atrophy were not well grounded and denied service connect...
• CAVCCase 11-2903 — Affirmed 2011-09-02
  However,the Board found that the Veteran's account of sustaining a back injury while diving into an artillery pit to be credible....
• CAVCCase 22-6636 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-02-21
  at 920,and opined that the appellant's hypertension was not related to his sinusitis....
• CAVCCase 04-1646 — Vacated / Remanded 2004-06-21
  The appellant appeals through counsel a June 21, 2004, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision wherein the Board denied service connection for post- traumatic stress disorder o...
• CAVCCase 23-6327 — Unknown 2025-01-31
  For bradycardia,the Board found that the condition did not manifest in service or the 1-year period following service, and it concluded that bradycardia was not attributable to ser...
• CAVCCase 20-7943 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-07-24
  Many of these conditions couldbe service connected on a presumptive,direct,or secondary basis upon demonstration that the veteran served in Vietnam � but the Board failed to adequa...
• CAVCCase 13-1865 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2013-05-22
  In the second decision on appeal (Decision 2),the Board denied the appellant....
• CAVCCase 24-0265 — Remanded 2025-05-14
  In a September 2015 male-reproductive-system examination,the examiner found no current disability....
• CAVCCase 23-2883 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-06-28
  The Court remands the claim for service connection for a low back disability because,as the Secretary concedes,the Board erred by relying on inadequate VA opinions....
• CAVCCase 07-1599 — Affirmed 2007-05-08
  The appellant does not present any argument concerning the Board's determination that no new and material evidence had been received sufficient to reopen his claims for service con...
• CAVCCase 23-2415 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-06-28
  In a September 2019 decision,the Board acknowledged that the appellant had submitted a wide variety of articles and documents concerning the use and storage of herbicide agents at ...
• CAVCCase 20-3569 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2020-01-28
  The spine examiner diagnosed degenerative arthritis of the spine,noted that the appellant's statements that he fell and injured his back in service and has complained of pain since...
• CAVCCase 23-3526 — Unknown 2024-09-25
  at 32,398-405,and in a June 2020 decision,the Board denied a disability rating higher than 10% for tinnitus,R....
• CAVCCase 07-1699 — Affirmed / Vacated 2007-05-24
  The appellant ,appeals a May 24,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied her claims for (1) entitlement to service connection for the cause of her h...
• CAVCCase 21-0365 — Unknown 2020-11-05
  He also explained that the veteran's left shoulder condition was caused by use of a cane to stabilize a gait abnormality created by the left ankle injury and opined that both condi...
• CAVCCase 24-4780 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-10-22
  The parties further agreed that the Board failed to address whether the appellant's macular degeneration was caused by in-service exposure to Agent Orange....
• CAVCCase 19-7109 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-10-03
  He also opined that the appellant's in-service heart murmur was less likely than not related to his current heart disability....
• CAVCCase 19-2158 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-01-10
  To the extent that the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than February 4,2007,for the 50%rating for PTSD,the appellant raises no arguments challenging that deci...
• CAVCCase 23-5497 — Unknown 2024-12-10
  3 Case:23-5497 Page: 4 of 13 Filed:12/10/2024 VA sent the appellant a duty to assist notice letter in July 2019 which included the forms he was required to complete to apply for a ...
• CAVCCase 11-0200 — Affirmed / Remanded 2010-10-07
  First,she asserts that the Board erred in failing to award her a disability rating in excess of 10%for her hemorrhoid and lumbar spine claims....
• CAVCCase 23-5944 — Affirmed 2024-10-31
  After the Board denied a rating in excess of 30%for the appellant's PTSD, he appealed to the Court,and the parties entered into a joint motion for partial remand,which the Court gr...
• CAVCCase 93-1203 — Vacated 1995-10-20
  3 The Board found that the evidence did not establish that "the veteran's heart disease manifested by systolic murmur was incurred or aggravated during active service"....
• CAVCCase 13-0783 — Vacated / Remanded 2012-12-03
  With respect to CAD,the RO found a current condition but that the medical opinions demonstrated that the condition was not related to drug testing in service or to RBBB found in se...
• CAVCCase 23-5580 — Unknown 2024-11-19
  The Board noted that in an April 2016 opinion,the veteran's treating VA provider stated that a medical article linked PTSD and TBI to OSA and opined that it is more likely than not...
• CAVCCase 22-5789 — Affirmed 2022-09-22
  Nonetheless, the Board denied the claim,finding that the appellant did not become disabled due to an acquired psychiatric disorder during ACDUTRA....