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. 2022 Sep 9:9:980679.
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.980679. eCollection 2022.

The Autoinflammatory Diseases Alliance Registry of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases

Carla Gaggiano  1 Antonio Vitale  1 Abdurrahman Tufan  2 Gaafar Ragab  3   4 Emma Aragona  5 Ewa Wiesik-Szewczyk  6 Djouher Ait-Idir  7 Giovanni Conti  8 Ludovica Iezzi  9 Maria Cristina Maggio  10 Marco Cattalini  11 Francesco La Torre  12 Giuseppe Lopalco  13 Elena Verrecchia  14   15 Amato de Paulis  16   17 Ali Sahin  18 Antonella Insalaco  19 Petros P Sfikakis  20 Achille Marino  21 Micol Frassi  22 Benson Ogunjimi  23   24   25   26 Daniela Opris-Belinski  27 Paola Parronchi  28 Giacomo Emmi  28 Farhad Shahram  29 Francesco Ciccia  30 Matteo Piga  31 José Hernández-Rodríguez  32 Rosa Maria R Pereira  33 Maria Alessio  34 Roberta Naddei  34 Alma Nunzia Olivieri  35 Emanuela Del Giudice  36 Paolo Sfriso  37 Piero Ruscitti  38 Francesca Li Gobbi  39 Hamit Kucuk  2 Jurgen Sota  1 Mohamed A Hussein  3 Giuseppe Malizia  5 Karina Jahnz-Różyk  6 Rawda Sari-Hamidou  40 Mery Romeo  8 Francesca Ricci  11 Fabio Cardinale  12 Florenzo Iannone  13 Francesca Della Casa  16 Marco Francesco Natale  19 Katerina Laskari  20 Teresa Giani  21 Franco Franceschini  22 Vito Sabato  41 Derya Yildirim  2 Valeria Caggiano  1 Mohamed Tharwat Hegazy  3   4 Rosalba Di Marzo  42 Aleksandra Kucharczyk  6 Ghalia Khellaf  43 Maria Tarsia  1 Ibrahim A Almaghlouth  44   45 Ahmed Hatem Laymouna  3 Violetta Mastrorilli  12 Laura Dotta  11 Luca Benacquista  9 Salvatore Grosso  46 Francesca Crisafulli  22 Veronica Parretti  1 Heitor F Giordano  33 Ayman Abdel-Monem Ahmed Mahmoud  3 Rossana Nuzzolese  1 Marta De Musso  1 Cecilia Beatrice Chighizola  47   48 Stefano Gentileschi  49 Mirella Morrone  13 Ilenia Di Cola  38 Veronica Spedicato  13 Henrique A Mayrink Giardini  33 Ibrahim Vasi  2 Alessandra Renieri  50   51   52 Alessandra Fabbiani  50   51   52 Maria Antonietta Mencarelli  52 Bruno Frediani  49 Alberto Balistreri  53 Gian Marco Tosi  54 Claudia Fabiani  54 Merav Lidar  55   56   57 Donato Rigante  9   14 Luca Cantarini  1
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The Autoinflammatory Diseases Alliance Registry of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases

Carla Gaggiano et al. Front Med (Lausanne). .

Abstract

Objective: The present manuscript aims to describe an international, electronic-based, user-friendly and interoperable patient registry for monogenic autoinflammatory diseases (mAIDs), developed in the contest of the Autoinflammatory Diseases Alliance (AIDA) Network.

Methods: This is an electronic platform, based on the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) tool, used for real-world data collection of demographics, clinical, laboratory, instrumental and socioeconomic data of mAIDs patients. The instrument has flexibility, may change over time based on new scientific acquisitions, and communicate potentially with other similar registries; security, data quality and data governance are corner stones of the platform.

Results: AIDA project will share knowledge and expertise on mAIDs. Since its start, 118 centers from 24 countries and 4 continents have joined the AIDA project. Fifty-nine centers have already obtained the approval from their local Ethics Committees. Currently, the platform counts 337 users (122 Principal Investigators, 210 Site Investigators, 2 Lead Investigators, and 3 data managers). The Registry collects baseline and follow-up data using 3,748 fields organized into 21 instruments, which include demographics, patient history, symptoms, trigger/risk factors, therapies, and healthcare information for mAIDs patients.

Conclusions: The AIDA mAIDs Registry, acts both as a research tool for future collaborative real-life studies on mAIDs and as a service to connect all the figures called to participate. On this basis, the registry is expected to play a pivotal role in generating new scientific evidence on this group of rare diseases, substantially improving the management of patients, and optimizing the impact on the healthcare system. NCT05200715 available at https://clinicaltrials.gov.

Keywords: autoinflammatory diseases; international registry; personalized medicine; precision medicine; rare diseases.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Current geographical coverage of the Autoinflammatory Diseases Alliance (AIDA) Registry of Monogenic Autoinflammatory Diseases. Countries highlighted in violet are those with at least one AIDA partner center (updated to June 20th, 2022).

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