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ORPHA:566192

Congenital autosomal recessive small-platelet thrombocytopenia

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: CARST

Publications

107

59.5th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

504

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare isolated constitutional thrombocytopenia characterized by onset of small-platelet thrombocytopenia with significantly increased bleeding tendency. Bleeding symptoms include petechial rash, mucosal bleeding, and heavy menstrual bleeding. Growth and development are normal, and there is no increased susceptibility to infections.

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

    107 matched papers (68 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; 615 for broader category thrombocytopenia

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?

107

107 papers have ever been published on this condition (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=5449) is 41.

107 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).

68 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 59.5th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 107 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

504

Distinct author names in 107 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
    Li Y10 papers · 2024

    Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China. liyun03602@pkufh.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Mathuthu M9 papers · 2026

    Center for Applied Radiation Science and Tehnology, North West University (Mafikeng), P.Bag X2046, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa. Manny.Mathuthu@nwu.ac.za.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Wang Y7 papers · 2025

    Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Lv Y6 papers · 2023

    Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China lvyuan0901@sina.com walshtr@cardiff.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Cui L4 papers · 2023

    Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Dudu VP3 papers · 2025

    North-West University, Centre for Applied Radiation, Science and Technology (CARST), Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Li R3 papers · 2025

    Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Peking University First Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Skin and Immune Diseases, Research Center for Medical Mycology, Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Diagnosis on Dermatoses, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Liu W3 papers · 2025

    Department of Pediatrics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No. 678 Furong Road, Hefei City, 230601, Anhui Province, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Olukotun SF3 papers · 2026

    Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. olukotunsf@oauife.edu.ng.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Song Y3 papers · 2023

    State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

    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). 615 trials are registered for thrombocytopenia, 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.

high 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.

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

Broader category: thrombocytopenia

615

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.

"Congenital autosomal recessive small-platelet thrombocytopenia" OR "CARST"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Congenital autosomal recessive small-platelet thrombocytopenia" OR "CARST"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"thrombocytopenia"

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 2026-07-27T18:26:03.731Z