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ORPHA:48435

Postinfectious vasculitis

high confidenceDisorder

Publications

19

32.6th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

109

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Vasculitis, characterized by inflammatory lesions in the wall of vessels, may be due to different viruses.

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

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.”

3/6 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

    19 matched papers (15 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    57 HPO annotations (e.g. Glomerulonephritis; Weight loss; Fever) Source

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  6. Interventional trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 198 for broader category vasculitis

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)

57

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0018837

  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Weight loss
  • Fever
  • Anorexia
  • Arthralgia

Showing 5 of 57 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

Therapies

Designations, candidates, and chemicals

FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.

Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)

No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.

Open Targets candidates

No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.

CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)

No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

19

19 papers have ever been indexed under this name. For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.

19 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).

15 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 32.6th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 19 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

109

Distinct author names in 19 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
    Aboufaris H1 paper · 2022

    Department of Pediatric Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Hôpital Mère-Enfant A. Harouchi , Casablanca,

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Abrahams D1 paper · 2022

    Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University , Tygerberg

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Aiuti A1 paper · 2016

    San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET), IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Pediatric Immunohematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: aiuti.alessandro@hsr.it.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Alessio M1 paper · 2016

    Rheumatology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    AlGhoozi DA1 paper · 2021

    Pediatrics, Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services, Riffa, Bahrain dalal.alghoozi@gmail.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    AlKhayyat HM1 paper · 2021

    Pediatrics, Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services, Riffa, Bahrain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Ameayou S1 paper · 2022

    Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy , Casablanca,

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Ansari G1 paper · 2022

    Department of Pediatric Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Hôpital Mère-Enfant A. Harouchi , Casablanca,

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Arficho KT1 paper · 2023

    Radiology, Ascension Providence Hospital, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSUCHM), Southfield, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Avšič Županc T1 paper · 2026

    Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

    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). 198 trials are registered for vasculitis, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 26 October 2026 · last trial check 26 October 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (5498 of 7126). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 38.6th 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.

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

Broader category: vasculitis

198

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

Other registries (secondary)

Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.

raw 0 · after dedupe 0 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 0 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-29

Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri

No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).

Where to find support

Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.

Orphanet entry for Postinfectious vasculitis — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

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.

"Postinfectious vasculitis"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Postinfectious vasculitis"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"vasculitis"

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

Ingested 2026-07-27T00:14:41.713Z