Diagnosis and Management of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases

Description

This protocol is being established to cover the evaluation of patients with inflammatory and/or infectious diseases which are not covered under previously existing protocols. The purpose of such a protocol is that frequently patients are referred to us with either diagnosed or undiagnosed illnesses which would be of interest to our teaching program or which would serve as a source of patients to subsequently be entered into established, ongoing protocol studies. Such patients will be admitted to the protocol and handled according to accepted medical practice of diagnosis and treatment....

Conditions

Infection, Inflammation

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Study overview

This protocol is being established to cover the evaluation of patients with inflammatory and/or infectious diseases which are not covered under previously existing protocols. The purpose of such a protocol is that frequently patients are referred to us with either diagnosed or undiagnosed illnesses which would be of interest to our teaching program or which would serve as a source of patients to subsequently be entered into established, ongoing protocol studies. Such patients will be admitted to the protocol and handled according to accepted medical practice of diagnosis and treatment....

Diagnosis and Management of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases

Diagnosis and Management of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases

Condition
Infection
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Bethesda

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Known or suspected exposure to infection, as determined by the Principal Investigator OR Presence of signs and symptoms of an infectious or inflammatory disease
  • 2. Age range: 3 years of age and older.
  • 3. NIAID/LIR investigator who has an interest in the patient s illness and is willing to serve as attending physician to supervise the patient's medical care at the NIH.
  • 4. Primary physician outside the NIH
  • 5. The patient or the patient's Legally Authorized Representative is capable of informed consent and signs the consent form. The consent form will be signed by parents or guardians of patients under the age of 18
  • 1. Pregnant.
  • 2. Presence of conditions that, in the judgment of the investigator, may put the participant at undue risk or make them unsuitable for participation in the study.

Ages Eligible for Study

3 Years to 100 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),

Mary E Wright, M.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Study Record Dates

N/A