RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS
Open navigation menu

ORPHA:402035

Eosinophilic colitis

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

1,108

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,151

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare gastroenterologic disease characterized by extensive eosinophilic infiltration of the colon in the absence of any known cause of secondary intestinal eosinophilia. Patients present with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, malabsorption, and/or weight loss. Symptoms do not correlate with the extent of the disease, which can be segmental or pancolonic. Blood testing may show peripheral eosinophilia. The condition has a bimodal age distribution, with a first peak in neonates and a second peak in young adulthood.

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

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

    1,108 matched papers (705 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; 1275 for broader category colitis

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?

1,108

1,108 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.

1,108 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).

705 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 1,108 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,151

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
    Dellon ES12 papers · 2026

    Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: edellon@med.unc.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Jensen ET7 papers · 2026

    Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Savarino EV7 papers · 2026

    Gastroenterology Unit, Azienda Ospedale Università of Padua, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Anderson C6 papers · 2026

    Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Hiremath G6 papers · 2025

    Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Cordell A5 papers · 2025

    EOS Network, England.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Dai X5 papers · 2025

    Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Di Sabatino A5 papers · 2026

    University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. a.disabatino@smatteo.pv.it.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Gonsalves N5 papers · 2025

    Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Gray S5 papers · 2025

    AusEE Inc, 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. 7 observational studies did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial. 1,275 trials are registered for colitis, 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.

low 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.

1,275 interventional trials matched colitis, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: colitis

1,275

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

Observational and natural-history studies

7 observational studies match this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

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.

"Eosinophilic colitis"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Eosinophilic colitis"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 7 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"colitis"

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (1108) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T15:31:00.925Z