Killian Hurley

CONTACT

Lead Sponsor

Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

Collaborators

Age

18 - 85 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Able and willing to give written informed consent.
•An MDT diagnosis of fibrotic ILD which fall into one of the following three catagories;
•1. Have a multidisciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis of a fibrotic interstitial lung disease, reporting one or more relatives with a fibrotic form of ILD
•2. Have a MDT diagnosis of IPF in accordance with consensus criteria, ATS, ERS, JRS, ALAT guidelines without a family history of pulmonary fibrosis.
•3. Meet the American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism criteria for rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and systemic lupus erythematosus.

•Currently participating in an interventional clinic trial.
•Change in clinical phenotype from initial radiological diagnosis to screening.
•Acute or chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis with consensus criteria (appropriate exposure history, radiological features ± avian and fungal precipitins).
•Asbestosis (appropriate occupational history and radiological evidence of asbestos exposure)
•Life expectancy for any disease, including ILD \<12 months (investigator assessment)
•Major extrapulmonary physiological restriction (e.g. chest wall abnormality, large pleural effusion)