Massive new registry aims to unlock secrets of swallowing disorders
NCT ID NCT07506746
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is creating a large database of information from 10,000 people with esophagus problems like GERD, achalasia, and other motility disorders. Researchers will collect data from standard tests to better understand these conditions. The goal is to improve diagnosis and treatment, not to test a new drug or cure.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 10,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2026
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2041
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients with reflux (typical or atypical) or obstructive esophageal symptoms on or off therapy, Barrett Esophagus patients, pts with eosinophilic esophagitis, gastroparesis, patients with primary motility esophageal disorders, patients undergone to foregut GI surgery procedures (esophageal myotomies, anti-reflux surgeries, bariatric procedures, gastroparesis surgery), Age \> 18 years
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study. 2. The procedures are the standard of care for the patient or the participant is taking the medicinal product according to clinical practice 3. Aged \> 18 years. 4. Any typical (heartburn or regurgitation) or atypical reflux symptom (Laryngeal Cough, laryngitis, sub-glottic stenosis, globus, laryngeal cancer, vocal cord granuloma, vocal cord irritation, vocal cord polyps and post-nasal drip; Oropharyngeal: Dental erosion, pharyngitis, sore or burning throat, gingivitis and halitosis; Ears and sinuses: Earaches, otitis media and sinusitis; Pulmonary: Chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, aspiration, bronchiectasis, asthma and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Cardiac: Arrhythmia, angina and myocardial infarction; Sleep: Sleep apnoea, sleep deprivation, insomnia, snoring, nightmare and sleep disturbance), but also any obstructive esophageal symptom potentially reflecting a primary or secondary motility disorder (oropharyngeal or esophageal dysphagia, chest pain, bolus impaction). Every patient with a diagnosis of esophageal inflammatory disorder (including EoE and others) or systemic rheumatological condition (scleroderma, systemic sclerosis, lichen planus and others), every patient previously undergone to any anti-reflux surgery, bariatric surgery, endoscopic or surgical esophageal or gastric myotomy (also for gastroparesis) may be included. 5. Patients must be referred to the Digestive Physiopathology Unit of IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital for motility tests Exclusion Criteria: 1. Age \< 18 years 2. Not willing to provide informed consent to the inclusion in the registry
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital
RECRUITINGMilan, Lombardy, 20132, Italy
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