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ORPHA:685082

Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: PARDS · Pediatric ARDS

Publications

1,379

Trials

7

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,149

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

    1,379 matched papers (1,141 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

    7 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (3 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?

1,379

1,379 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.

1,379 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).

1,141 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 1,379 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,149

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
    Yehya N22 papers · 2026

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Khemani RG14 papers · 2026

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Cruces P10 papers · 2026

    Centro de Investigación de Medicina Veterinaria, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Lee JH9 papers · 2026

    Children's Intensive Care Unit, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Grunwell JR8 papers · 2025

    Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Kneyber MCJ8 papers · 2026

    Dr. Kneyber is affiliated with the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Bhalla AK7 papers · 2025

    Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; and.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Maddux AB7 papers · 2026

    Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Sapru A7 papers · 2026

    Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Shein SL7 papers · 2025

    Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

7

interventional trials for this specific condition

7 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 3 currently recruiting in our sample. 569 trials are registered for acute respiratory distress syndrome, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

7 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 89.9th percentile).

low confidence · 89.9th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

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

Broader category: acute respiratory distress syndrome

569

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.

"Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome" OR "PARDS" OR "Pediatric ARDS"

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

"Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome" OR "PARDS" OR "Pediatric ARDS"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"acute respiratory distress syndrome"

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 (1379) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T20:29:03.676Z