Clinical trial NCT02951416: Clinical Course of Interstitial Lung Diseases: European IPF Registry and Biobank
Official title: The European IPF Registry - an Internet-based, Pan-European Registry Linked to the European IPF Biobank (eurIPFbank)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
Interstitial Lung Diseases
Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases
Lead sponsor: University of Giessen
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-11-01
Enrollment: 2000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with Interstitial Lung Diseases

Brief summary: Born out of the European Union 7th Framework Programme funded project European IPF Network (eurIPFnet), the European IPF Registry (eurIPFreg) has become Europe's leading database of longitudinal data from IPF patients, including control groups of patients with other lung diseases. The registry was initiated with the intention of creating a permanent and continuously growing record of well defined data on IPF in Europe, in order to increase the chances of finding better treatment options for this devastating disease.

Clinical colleagues who would like to actively participate (both in terms of patient recruitment and data analysis) are invited to contact us (http://www.pulmonary-fibrosis.net/).

Detailed description: The group's work aims to foster research on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), the most aggressive form of an Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia (IIP). Within the eurIPFreg we, the eurIPFreg steering committee and a growing number of external site investigators, aim to describe the natural course of IPF and other IIPs, to identify risk factors that are associated with the evolution of the disease and to sample biomaterials that may serve as underlying basis for translational research activities.

IPF and non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), as well as the other entities of IIPs (cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, COP; desquamative interstitial pneumonia, DIP; respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease, RB-ILD; lymphoid interstitial pneumonia, LIP; acute interstitial pneumonia, AIP) are frequently progressive, fibroproliferative diseases of unknown etiology, affecting the lung parenchyma. Patients with IPF have the most devastating prognosis within the group of IIPs, with a median survival rate of 2-3 years.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Informed consent signed

Exclusion Criteria:

* No informed consent signed

Primary outcomes:
measure: clinical course of patients with Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
timeFrame: 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Comorbidities of patients with ILD
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Infections in lung function of patients with ILD
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Quality of life of patients with ILD
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Health care utilization of patients with ILD
timeFrame: 5 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vienna
country: Austria
facility: Medizinische Universität Wien
city: Dijon
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
city: Paris
country: France
facility: Hopital Bichat Paris
city: Giessen
country: Germany
facility: Andreas Guenther
city: Greifenstein
country: Germany
facility: Lungenfachklinik Waldhof Elgershausen
city: Catania
country: Italy
facility: Università degli Studi di Catania
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: Royal Brompton Hospital
Study officials:
References:
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