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ORPHA:447774

Secondary sclerosing cholangitis

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

1,028

Trials

2

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,330

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare, biliary tract disease characterized by development of sclerosing cholangitis due to a known primary insult to the biliary tree, including infections, autoimmune disease, exposure to toxic agents, obstructive and ischemic injuries. Patients may be initially asymptomatic with only elevated alkaline phosphatase and gamma glutamyltransferase levels. Later presentation includes abdominal pain, jaundice, pruritus, fever and bacterial cholangitis from ascending infection.

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

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    1,028 matched papers (738 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 trialPresent

    2 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov

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?

1,028

1,028 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.

1,028 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).

738 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 1,028 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,330

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

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Müller T5 papers · 2024

    Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Regensburg

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Dechene A4 papers · 2026

    Department of Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, Hospital Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Lange CM4 papers · 2025

    Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Semmler G4 papers · 2026

    Division of Gastroenterology and HepatologyDepartment of Medicine IIIMedical University of ViennaViennaAustria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Trauner M4 papers · 2026

    Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine IIIMedical University of ViennaViennaAustria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Andrade RJ3 papers · 2026

    Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Enfermedades Digestivas, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga-IBIMA, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: andrade@uma.es.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Fiel MI3 papers · 2025

    Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York New York USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Haselwanter P3 papers · 2026

    Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Kandulski A3 papers · 2024

    Department of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Merle U3 papers · 2026

    Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Intoxication, Internal Medicine IV, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

2

interventional trials for this specific condition

2 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; none in our sample are currently recruiting. 98 trials are registered for sclerosing cholangitis, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

2 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 82.4th percentile).

low confidence · 82.4th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

2 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

No currently recruiting studies in the matched set. Open the same search on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Broader category: sclerosing cholangitis

98

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

2 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.

None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as 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.

"Secondary sclerosing cholangitis"

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

"Secondary sclerosing cholangitis"

Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 2 interventional · 2 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"sclerosing cholangitis"

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 (1028) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T16:32:39.254Z