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ORPHA:658602

Transplant-related bronchiolitis obliterans

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: BOS · Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome

Publications

4,260

Trials

31

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,474

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

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

    4,260 matched papers (2,329 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

    31 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (5 recruiting in sample)

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?

4,260

4,260 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.

4,260 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).

2,329 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 4,260 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,474

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
    Bergeron A11 papers · 2026

    Pneumology Department, Geneva University Hospitals, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Sheshadri A8 papers · 2026

    Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Shanthikumar S7 papers · 2026

    Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Respiratory Diseases, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: shivanthan.shanthikumar@rch.org.au.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Vos R7 papers · 2026

    Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Bos S6 papers · 2026

    Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Cheng GS6 papers · 2026

    Division of Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Cheng PC6 papers · 2026

    Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana; Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Cooke KR6 papers · 2026

    Department of Oncology, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Davies SM6 papers · 2026

    Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Iyer NP6 papers · 2026

    Division of Neonatology, Fetal and Neonatal Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

31

interventional trials for this specific condition

31 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 5 currently recruiting in our sample. 265 trials are registered for bronchiolitis, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

31 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 95.8th percentile).

low confidence · 95.8th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

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

Broader category: bronchiolitis

265

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

10 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.

"Transplant-related bronchiolitis obliterans" OR "Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome"

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

"Transplant-related bronchiolitis obliterans" OR "Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome"

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: 31 interventional · 10 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"bronchiolitis"

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: BOS

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
  • Publication count (4260) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T20:04:00.069Z