Prospective Data Collection of Patients With Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases. Basic parameters: 21 years — 90 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Singapore
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Prospective Data Collection of Clinical, Pulmonary Function, Radiological, Bronchoscopic and Fibered Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics in Patients With Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases
Overview
The purpose of this study is to generate a prospective database of all patients evaluated for diffuse parenchymal lung diseases to provide much needed data on the various disease aetiologies, incidence and prevalence rates, clinical and radiological presentations, pathologic correlations, disease progression and response to treatment, and final outcomes in this group of patients in Singapore.
Primary outcome measures
- Final diagnoses of patients presenting with diffuse parenchymal lung disease after complete evaluation [Time frame: 3 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- All patients 21 years old and older diagnosed with suspected diffuse parenchymal lung disease (multi-lobar pulmonary infiltrates)
Exclusion criteria
- None
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-only
Study locations
Singapore · 1 center
- Singapore General Hospital — Singapore
Publications
- American Thoracic Society; European Respiratory Society. American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias. This joint statement of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) was adopted by the ATS board of directors, June 2001 and by the ERS Executive Commit PMID 11790668
- Raghu G, Collard HR, Egan JJ, Martinez FJ, Behr J, Brown KK, Colby TV, Cordier JF, Flaherty KR, Lasky JA, Lynch DA, Ryu JH, Swigris JJ, Wells AU, Ancochea J, Bouros D, Carvalho C, Costabel U, Ebina M, Hansell DM, Johkoh T, Kim DS, King TE Jr, Kondoh Y, Myers J, Muller NL, Nicholson AG, Richeldi L, Selman M, Dudden RF, Griss BS, Protzko SL, Schunemann HJ; ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Committee on Idiopathic Pu PMID 21471066
Identifiers
NCT: NCT01600378 · 2012/245/Cilddatabase