Global PNH Patient Registry

The Global PNH Patient Registry is a prospective, longitudinal, web-based, observational?observational A study in which researchers do not assign participants to a treatment or other intervention. They observe or measure what happens, which may include study visits, tests, questionnaires or a review of medical records. natural history study. Participants with PNH will be followed throughout the course of their lives with either the participant or authorized respondents contributing data at varying intervals throughout the course of the study. Data will be collected at the start of the study (baseline?baseline Measurements taken at the start of the study, before any study treatment, so that later results can be compared with them.), at least once per year or can be updated by the participant as needed. Data will be collected on demographics, quality of life, medical history, disease phenotypes, disease-related events, personal experience with PNH, general health status, medications, and diagnoses. The Global PNH Patient Registry provides a convenient online platform for participants; facilitates communication about PNH; gives researchers the ability to characterize the PNH population as a whole; assists the PNH community with the development of recommendations and standards of care and; and serves as a case-finding resource to be used for researchers to study the pathophysiology of PNH. A Registry Advisory Board, that may include scientists, doctors, and patient advocates, will be assembled to oversee the conduct of the study. The Advisory Board will review aggregate registry data and the use of this registry, ensure proper evaluation of protocols requesting to use registry data and/or contact registry participants, and review any protocol or confidentiality deviations on a case- by by-case basis and ensure that any such deviations are reported to the IRB. The registry will use a web-based interface to maximize accessibility to participants and clinicians world-wide. Following informed consent, participants will be invited to enter their data and information which will be stored indefinitely or until a participant revokes their consent to participate in the study. No experimental intervention is involved in participation in the Global PNH Patient registry study. Annual maintenance will be funded by the Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation (AAMDSIF) with support from industry partners. Registry participants will be automatically enrolled in NORD's Natural History Study Program (NHS), and their de-identified information aggregated with information from other rare diseases may be used for the purposes of cross disease analysis and cross-disease research to facilitate advocacy and further NORD's mission. De-identified information may be shared with other databases such as the Rare Disease Cures Accelerator-Data and Analytics Platform (RDCA-DAP). This will allow more researchers to use the information to do research.