BVA Decisions on Heart

48 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving heart. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

• Case 90-1360 — Unknown March 1, 1993
  The appellant asserts that, although he did not submit evidence that was "new and material", under the precedents of this Court, so as to reopen his previously and finally denied c...
• Case 22-464 — Vacated / Remanded January 26,2023
  Yarbrough , 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 memory...
• Case 23-3528 — Unknown May 13,2024
  Ferrerio,appeals the May 9, 2023,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for a heart disability....
• Case 17-3373 — Affirmed January 9,2019
  The Board found that service connection was not warranted because the appellant did not exhibit a bilateral hearing loss disability for VA purposes....
• Case 12-885 — Vacated / Remanded August 15,2013
  In doing so,the Board found that the appellant's military occupational specialty and personnel records ....
• Case 94-0927 — Affirmed / Reversed January 27, 1997
  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....
• Case 23-0092 — Vacated / Remanded March 21,2024
  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...
• Case 13-580 — Vacated / Remanded March 18,2014
  5103A(a), whether the Secretary's duty to assist required VA to obtain a medical opinion (R....
• Case 24-293 — Unknown May 30,2025
  Specifically,the Board noted that the appellant reported to have received treatment for all his claim conditions at Munson Army Health Center in Ft....
• Case 07-1008 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated December 31,2008
  Wilson,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 back disa...
• Case 23-2629 — Vacated / Remanded May 20,2024
  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...
• Case 02-1077 — Vacated April 14, 2005
  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)]....
• Case 18-4475 — Unknown September 13,2022
  Dotson 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 error (CU...
• Case 20-3955 — Vacated / Remanded December 30,2021
  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...
• Case 17-1885 — Affirmed July 10,2018
  5103A(d),the Secretary's duty to assist includes providing a medical examination or obtaining a medical opinion when such an examination or opinion is necessary to make a decision ...
• Case 23-1100 — Vacated / Remanded August 29,2024
  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....
• Case 09-2059 — Affirmed / Vacated / Reversed July 6,2010
  The Board found that the appellant's current kidney condition was not present in service or within one year of discharge and was not related to service....
• Case 21-0226 — Vacated / Remanded April 17,2023
  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....
• Case 23-4881 — Unknown January 30,2025
  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...
• Case 10-2287 — Affirmed November 21,2011
  Thomas ,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 presente...
• Case 19-9098 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded May 6,2021
  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...
• Case 17-0035 — Vacated / Remanded March 30,2018
  The examiner diagnosed the appellant with GERD with a date of diagnosis of 1989,concluding that such disability is less likely than not related to a specific exposure event ....
• Case 10-0826 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed August 31,2011
  clearly erred in concluding that VA satisfied its duty to assist Mr....
• Case 22-3869 — Vacated / Remanded September 28,2023
  at 2487-88, the Board member explained that the appellant was missing evidence of a nexus,R....
• Case 23-0076 — Vacated / Remanded February 15,2024
  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...
• Case 96-1726 — Reversed / Vacated OctoberOctober 65, 1998
  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...
• Case 11-2903 — Affirmed August 31,2012
  However,the Board found that the Veteran's account of sustaining a back injury while diving into an artillery pit to be credible....
• Case 04-1646 — Vacated / Remanded January 4, 2007
  Sanchez-Navarro appeals through counsel a June 21, 2004, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision wherein the Board denied service connection for post- traumatic stress disorder...
• Case 23-6327 — Unknown January 31,2025
  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...
• Case 23-2883 — Vacated / Remanded June 28,2024
  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....
• Case 07-1599 — Affirmed April 10,2009
  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...
• Case 23-2415 — Vacated / Remanded June 28,2024
  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 ...
• Case 24-4780 — Vacated / Remanded October 22,2025
  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....
• Case 97-192 — Vacated / Remanded February 15, 2000
  Trilles appeals a November 14, 1996, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision that determined that no new and material evidence had been presented to reopen a decision under 38 ...
• Case 23-5497 — Unknown December 10,2024
  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 ...
• Case 93-1203 — Vacated October 20, 1995
  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"....
• Case 13-0783 — Vacated / Remanded April 30,2014
  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...
• Case 22-5789 — Affirmed January 16,2024
  Nonetheless, the Board denied the claim,finding that the appellant did not become disabled due to an acquired psychiatric disorder during ACDUTRA....
• Case 23-0608 — Vacated / Remanded April 30,2024
  Parties'Arguments The appellant first argues that the Board failed to ensure that VA satisfied its predecisional duty to assist him because VA did not provide a medical examination...
• Case 24-2811 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded July 9,2025
  Thereafter,in September 2018,the Board found that the appellant had submitted new and material evidence to reopen his previously denied claims for mononucleosis (also claimed as to...
• Case 96-1522 — Vacated March 17, 1999
  FARLEY, Judge : This is an appeal from an October 24, 1996, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not been s...
• Case 03-1345 — Vacated / Remanded January 26, 2006
  He argues that the Board decision is clearly erroneous and should be reversed....
• Case 14-0751 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed July 31,2015
  The examiner opined that the appellant's current symptoms were not related to his in-service injury....
• Case 04-0140 — Affirmed September 11, 2006
  In May 1982, a VA regional office (RO) denied him entitlement to service connection for his heart-related conditions on the grounds that there was no evidence in his service medica...
• Case 21-3782 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded November 8,2022
  Service Connection for Sinusitis In the decision on appeal, the Board denied service connection for sinusitis because the preponderance of the evidence was against finding that the...
• Case 22-6162 — Unknown November 7,2023
  In an August 2017 decision,the Board denied the appellant's claims....
• Case 12-0238 — Vacated / Remanded April 15,2013
  PIETSCH, Judge :The appellant, Francisco Ortiz ,appeals through counsel a December 19, 2011,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied him entitlement to a...
• Case 93-1013 — Vacated / Remanded / Reversed August 10, 1994
  The Board held that appellant had not submitted new and material evidence since a May 4, 1990, VA letter informing him that he was ineligible for VA benefits because the Department...