Refer a patient for inclusion into the register / biobank
Please supply the documents listed below and send the referring materials to the following address:
Mrs. A. Schams
AG Pneumologie I, Räume KO.10-12 | Forschungszentrum Kubus | Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital
80337 München
Samples frozen on dry ice are accepted on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.
Plan shipping so that delivery to the lab is scheduled until 12h on these days.
Please notify lab beforehand. All other samples may arrive anytime.
The lab is closed from 18.12.2024 to 07.01.2025.
1 | Consent forms, signed
For potential inclusion of the case in the register, please obtain your patient's informed consent. The consent forms for parents/caregivers, underage as well as adult patients can be downloaded via the Consent Forms Register page.
For genetic diagnostics please use the following PDF form. All senders from Germany: be sure to include the Ü-10 laboratory referral for outpatients!
ALWAYS send documents and samples to the register address indicated above (not to the genetic laboratory itself!). You may benefit from our program in genetic testing; for more information please ask.
4 | Biomaterials
Please send biomaterials always labelled clearly for exact identification of content and safely packed in a closed plastic bag!
The following materials may be shipped at ambient temperature using regular mail:
- EDTA blood (always triplett: patient (5 -10 ml) + parents (10 ml))
- Pax/tempus tubes for RNA analysis
- Lung tissue, wax block or/and slides of lung tissue if available
- Lung tissue in formalin or/and glutaraldehyde
- Skin biopsy in culture medium
- Lung tissue in culture medium
The following materials need to be shipped frozen on dry ice:
- BAL, frozen tissue samples
Asservation of material from a deceased patient/autopsy/partial lung only autopsy (SOP).
Note: No delivery of samples possible on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
5 | Imaging (X-Ray-Thorax Series, CT)
The imaging data can be sent as CD by regular mail.
You may upload the DICOM files directly into the register if you already have a Data Capture Login.
However, as this may be cumbersome for the inexperienced, we recommend to send a pseudonymized CD, which we will upload for you.