RightFit
RecruitingPhase not listed

Rheumatology Patient Registry and Biorepository

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This registry and sample bank supports research on rheumatic autoimmune diseases, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues. It is for adults with these diseases who get care at Yale Rheumatology clinics, and for healthy adult volunteers.

To facilitate clinical, basic science, and translational research projects involving the study of rheumatic diseases.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • All participants: Must be age 18 or older.
  • Patients: Must have a rheumatic autoimmune disease, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or another disease in this group.
  • Patients: Must get care at Yale Rheumatology clinics.
  • Healthy volunteers: Must have no long-term skin conditions.
  • Healthy volunteers: Must not have a rheumatic autoimmune disease.
  • Healthy volunteers: Must have a normal body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight compared with height.

Who can't join

  • All participants: Cannot join if unable to give informed consent, which means understanding the study and agreeing to take part.
  • Patients: Gender, ethnicity, or pregnancy will not keep you from joining.
  • Pregnant patients: Must wait until after giving birth to donate a skin biopsy, a small piece of skin.
  • Patients: Cannot donate a skin biopsy if allergic to lidocaine or epinephrine, medicines used during the biopsy, or if wounds have healed poorly in the past.
  • Healthy volunteers: Cannot join while pregnant or breastfeeding unless the study aims to study these groups.
  • Healthy volunteers: For skin biopsies, cannot have an allergy to lidocaine or epinephrine or a history of wounds healing poorly.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Rheumatology Patients: * 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 Exclusion Criteria for Rheumatology Patients: * 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. * Patients allergic to lidocaine or epinephrine or have a history of impaired wound healing will not be able to donate a skin biopsy. Inclusion Criteria for Healthy Volunteers: * Age ≥ 18 years old * No chronic skin conditions * No diagnosis of a rheumatic autoimmune disease (e.g., lupus, rheumatoid arthritis) * Normal BMI Exclusion Criteria for Healthy Volunteers: * Unable to provide informed consent. * Currently pregnant or nursing unless the study goal is to study pregnant or nursing woman. * Allergies to lidocaine or epinephrine (skin biopsies). * A history of impaired wound healing (skin biopsies).

Study sites (1)

CT