NCT04402086Recruiting
Rheumatology Patient Registry and Biorepository
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To facilitate clinical, basic science, and translational research projects involving the study of rheumatic diseases.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 5000 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 20 May 2020
- Start date
- 4 Aug 2020
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jun 2030
- Lead sponsor
- Yale University
- Diseases
- Psoriasis, Sjögren's disease, Lupus (SLE), Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), Ankylosing spondylitis, Psoriatic arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis
- NCT number
- NCT04402086
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 5000
- From 4 Aug 2020 to the primary completion date, 1 Jun 2030
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Other illness
- Patients allergic to lidocaine or epinephrine or have a history of impaired wound healing will not be able to donate a skin biopsy.
- Allergies to lidocaine or epinephrine (skin biopsies).
- A history of impaired wound healing (skin biopsies).
Other
- Unable to provide informed consent
- No patients will be excluded based on gender or ethnicity or pregnancy status.
- Women who are currently pregnant will need to wait to donate a skin biopsy until after they deliver.
- Unable to provide informed consent.
- Currently pregnant or nursing unless the study goal is to study pregnant or nursing woman.
Who the study is looking for
- Patients ≥18 years old with a diagnosis of a rheumatic autoimmune disease including, but not limited to: adult onset Still's disease, ankylosing spondylitis, antiphospholipid syndrome, Behcet's disease, dermatomyositis, giant cell arteritis, mixed connective tissue disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, polymyositis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, undifferentiated connective tissue disease and vasculitis.
- Receiving clinical care at Yale Rheumatology clinics
- Age ≥ 18 years old
- No chronic skin conditions
- No diagnosis of a rheumatic autoimmune disease (e.g., lupus, rheumatoid arthritis)
- Normal BMI
Age in the registry: 18 years to 99 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yale New Haven Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Haven | United States | Recruiting |
This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.