This study is currently recruiting participants.
Number
18-H-0108
Sponsoring Institute
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Recruitment Detail
Type: Participants currently recruited/enrolled Gender: Male & Female Min Age: 2 Years Max Age: 100 Years
Referral Letter Required
No
Population Exclusion(s)
None
Keywords
Etiology of Rare and Orphan Diseases with Vascular Phenotype; Natural History of Rare and Orphan Diseases with Vascular Phenotype; Pathophysiology of Uncommon Vascular Diseases; Undiagnosed Diseases; Rare Human Diseases with Vascular Features; Natural History
Recruitment Keyword(s)
Condition(s)
Vascular Dysfunction; Genetic Mutations; Genetic Predisposition
Investigational Drug(s)
Investigational Device(s)
Intervention(s)
Supporting Site
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Some genetic diseases put increase the risk of heart and blood diseases, which are the number one cause of death and disability in the U.S. Researchers want to study diseases of the heart and/or blood vessels. They want to collect data and specimens from affected people, their family members, and healthy people.
Objective:
To study diseases of the heart and/or blood vessels.
Eligibility:
People age 2 and older who may have genetic disease affecting the heart and/or blood vessels Their relatives
Healthy volunteers
Design:
Participants will be screened with a medical history, physical exams, and imaging tests. Participants may have a few visits or visits for 2 weeks or more. This will depend on their age and disease status. Visits may include:
Photographs of the face and body
Heart tests
Samples taken of blood, urine, saliva, skin, and/or tissue
Scans. For some, a dye may be injected into a vein.
A six-minute walk test
Lung tests. For some, participants will blow into a tube. For others, they will breathe in a gas from a mask, have a small injection, then have a scan.
Stress tests while walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike
Ultrasound of veins and arteries
Devices outside the body testing the stiffness and function of arteries
Eye exam and eye tests. For some, a dye may be injected in a vein.
Blood pressure tests
Measurements of blood flow under the skin and in the arms and fingernail blood vessels
Devices outside the body testing flexibility of the blood vessels and skin, and skin temperature
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INCLUSION CRITERIA: -All subjects must be between the ages of 2-100 years old. -Affected pregnant women if they have been referred with a known or suspected pathology or if they become pregnant while on study. -Unaffected related pregnant women (including spouses/partners) for cord blood and tissue collection (surgical waste) only at the time of delivery. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: -Healthy volunteers unable to give informed consent -Healthy volunteers who decline to have blood drawn and/or tissue studies or who do not consent to have samples stored for future research. -Cognitively impaired individuals who are not affected. -Cognitively impaired individuals not related to affected subjects.
-All subjects must be between the ages of 2-100 years old.
-Affected pregnant women if they have been referred with a known or suspected pathology or if they become pregnant while on study.
-Unaffected related pregnant women (including spouses/partners) for cord blood and tissue collection (surgical waste) only at the time of delivery.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
-Healthy volunteers unable to give informed consent
-Healthy volunteers who decline to have blood drawn and/or tissue studies or who do not consent to have samples stored for future research.
-Cognitively impaired individuals who are not affected.
-Cognitively impaired individuals not related to affected subjects.
Principal Investigator
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