ORPHA:700139
Late-onset idiopathic chronic pancreatitis
How rare: 1-9 / 100 000 — about one to nine people per hundred thousand.
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=183) is 38.
19 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 38 (publications denominator n=183).
6 in the last 10 years · low confidence
Is a treatment being tested?
0
trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name. 1 observational study did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial.
Data as of 26 July 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 59.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (151 of 255). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
low confidence · 29.6th percentile (trials denominator)
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.
Who's working on it?
97
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.
- 01DiMagno EP4 papers · 2005Papers in Europe PMC
- 02Layer P3 papers · 2005
Department of Internal Medicine, Israelitic Hospital, Hamburg, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Imoto M2 papers · 2001
Gastroenterology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Yadav D2 papers · 2021
Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Abberbock JN1 paper · 2021
Division of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Ahmed Z1 paper · 2002Papers in Europe PMC
- 07Alkaade S1 paper · 2021
Division of Gastroenterology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08
- 09Ammann RW1 paper · 2005Papers in Europe PMC
- 10Andersen JR1 paper · 2005Papers in Europe PMC
Recruiting interventional trials
Trials testing a treatment from the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
See who's working on it above — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.
Observational and natural-history studies
1 observational study matches 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.
None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as recruiting.
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 2026-07-26This 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 below but are not added to the query string.
"Late-onset idiopathic chronic pancreatitis"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Late-onset idiopathic chronic pancreatitis"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
0Query 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
- No Orphanet definition and no Mondo IDs — likely taxonomy scaffolding; confidence capped at low