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ORPHA:91364

Non-specific interstitial pneumonia

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: NSIP · Non-specific idiopathic interstitial pneumonia

Publications

6,275

Trials

2

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,418

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare interstitial pneumonia characterized by temporally uniform alveolar and interstitial mononuclear cell inflammation (cellular type) and/or fibrosis of the alveolar walls (fibrotic type) with preserved alveolar architecture. Other types of interstitial lung disease must be excluded. Symptoms are non-specific and include dyspnea, cough, and often constitutional symptoms such as fever and fatigue. Pulmonary function test reveals a restrictive pattern. Computed tomography shows predominantly lower lobe subpleural reticular changes, traction bronchiectasis, and ground-glass opacities. The cellular type of the disease is less common but carries a better prognosis.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

non-specific idiopathic interstitial pneumonia · nonspecific interstitial pneumonia

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

    6,275 matched papers (4,646 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

    2 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (1 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?

6,275

6,275 papers — among the better-studied rare conditions, though still a fraction of common-disease literature (breast cancer: over 700,000). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

6,275 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).

4,646 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 6,275 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,418

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
    Zhang Y8 papers · 2026

    Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer; Key Laboratory of Cancer Immunology and Biotherapy, Tianjin, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Eren R4 papers · 2026

    Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul 34020, Türkiye.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Anghel D3 papers · 2026

    Carol Davila Military Central Hospital, 050474 Bucharest, Romania; (I.M.E.); (D.A.)

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Belaconi I3 papers · 2026

    Faculty of General Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bld Eroii Sanitari nr 8, 050474 Bucharest, Romania;

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Bruni C3 papers · 2026

    Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Demirkol B3 papers · 2026

    Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul 34020, Türkiye.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Fukuoka J3 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology Informatics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan; Department of Pathology, Kameda Medical Center, 929, Higashi-cho, Kamogawa City, Chiba, 296-0041, Japan. Electronic address: fukuokaj@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Johkoh T3 papers · 2026

    Department of Radiology, Kansai Rosai Hospital, 3-1-69 Inabaso, Amagasaki, Hyogo, 660-8511, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Li Y3 papers · 2025

    Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Liang Y3 papers · 2026

    Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

2

interventional trials for this specific condition

2 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 1 currently recruiting in our sample. 1,761 trials are registered for pneumonia, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

2 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 82.4th percentile).

low confidence · 82.4th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

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

Broader category: pneumonia

1,761

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

4 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.

"Non-specific interstitial pneumonia" OR "Non-specific idiopathic interstitial pneumonia" OR "nonspecific interstitial pneumonia"

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

"Non-specific interstitial pneumonia" OR "Non-specific idiopathic interstitial pneumonia" OR "nonspecific interstitial pneumonia"

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: 2 interventional · 4 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"pneumonia"

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: NSIP

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 (6275) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T04:00:45.773Z