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ORPHA:357131

Venous thoracic outlet syndrome

medium confidenceSubtype of disorder

Also known as: Venous scalenus anticus syndrome · Venous thoracic outlet compression syndrome · Effort subclavian vein thrombosis · Paget-Schrotter disease · VTOS · Venous TOS · Venous cervical rib syndrome · Venous costoclavicular syndrome · Venous hyperabduction syndrome

Publications

573

89th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

916

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Venous thoracic outlet syndrome (VTOS) is a form of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) that manifests as unilateral (rarely bilateral) arm pain and cyanosis.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (1)

effort subclavian vein thrombosis

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    573 matched papers (436 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 15 for broader category thoracic outlet syndrome

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

573

573 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

573 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

436 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 89th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 573 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

916

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    de Borst GJ7 papers · 2026

    Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Thompson RW7 papers · 2025

    The Center for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and the Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. Electronic address: rwthompson@wustl.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Petri BJ6 papers · 2026

    Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Illig KA5 papers · 2022

    Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Fla.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    van Hattum ES5 papers · 2026

    Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Gelabert HA4 papers · 2025

    Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, Ronald Reagan Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Schropp L4 papers · 2025

    Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Velazquez G4 papers · 2026

    Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Winston-Salem, NC.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Chen Y3 papers · 2021

    Department of Vascular Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Dubenec S3 papers · 2022

    Department of Vascular Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 50 Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW, 2066, Australia.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 15 trials are registered for thoracic outlet syndrome, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

medium confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

15 interventional trials matched thoracic outlet syndrome, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: thoracic outlet syndrome

15

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Venous thoracic outlet syndrome" OR "Venous scalenus anticus syndrome" OR "Venous thoracic outlet compression syndrome" OR "Effort subclavian vein thrombosis" OR "Paget-Schrotter disease" OR "Venous TOS" OR "Venous cervical rib syndrome" OR "Venous costoclavicular syndrome" OR "Venous hyperabduction syndrome"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Venous thoracic outlet syndrome" OR "Venous scalenus anticus syndrome" OR "Venous thoracic outlet compression syndrome" OR "Effort subclavian vein thrombosis" OR "Paget-Schrotter disease" OR "Venous TOS" OR "Venous cervical rib syndrome" OR "Venous costoclavicular syndrome" OR "Venous hyperabduction syndrome"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"thoracic outlet syndrome"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: VTOS

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 1 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T14:32:00.334Z