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ORPHA:685004

Primary pericardial mesothelioma

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: PPM · Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma

Publications

467

77.8th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,138

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

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.

Additional Mondo synonyms (6)

malignant mesothelioma (disease) of pericardium · malignant mesothelioma of pericardium · malignant mesothelioma of the pericardium · pericardial malignant mesothelioma · pericardium malignant mesothelioma (disease) · pericardium mesothelioma

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

    467 matched papers (190 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; 468 for broader category mesothelioma

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?

467

467 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.

467 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).

190 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 77.8th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 467 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,138

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
    Yan Y4 papers · 2026

    Clinic Center of Human Gene Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Road 1277, Wuhan 430000, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Li Y3 papers · 2023

    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Liu J3 papers · 2023

    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Xu H3 papers · 2025

    Department of Medical Oncology, Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital and Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Awan SK2 papers · 2020

    Kabir Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Bashir G2 papers · 2020

    Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, KP, 25000, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Cao J2 papers · 2024

    Department of Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, No. 150 Haping Road, 150081, Harbin, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Kang EJ2 papers · 2017

    Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea University Medical Center, Guro Hospital, Seoul 08308, Republic of Korea.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Kejriwal NK2 papers · 2022
    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Kim D2 papers · 2026

    Sky Institute of Veterinary Applied Science, Incheon Sky Animal Hospital, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

    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). 468 trials are registered for mesothelioma, 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.

medium 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.

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

Broader category: mesothelioma

468

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.

"Primary pericardial mesothelioma" OR "Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma" OR "malignant mesothelioma (disease) of pericardium" OR "malignant mesothelioma (disease) of the pericardium" OR "malignant mesothelioma of pericardium" OR "malignant mesothelioma of the pericardium" OR "pericardial malignant mesothelioma" OR "pericardium malignant mesothelioma (disease)" OR "pericardium mesothelioma"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Primary pericardial mesothelioma" OR "Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma" OR "malignant mesothelioma (disease) of pericardium" OR "malignant mesothelioma (disease) of the pericardium" OR "malignant mesothelioma of pericardium" OR "malignant mesothelioma of the pericardium" OR "pericardial malignant mesothelioma" OR "pericardium malignant mesothelioma (disease)" OR "pericardium mesothelioma"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"mesothelioma"

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: PPM

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

Ingested 2026-07-27T20:28:16.626Z