Data Collection of Standard Care and Evaluation of NHLBI Patients and Donors

This protocol is designed to provide a repository of information to allow for hypothesis generation in future research. This information will be drawn from standard medical care/procedures and follow up of patients and healthy volunteers, including transplant donors, who are not currently receiving therapy on an active NHLBI research protocol. It allows investigation into the problems of these patients for the purpose of teaching and furthering general knowledge. The ability to evaluate and treat patients with a wide variety of diseases is critical to maintaining our accreditation with the hematology-oncology, cardiology, and pulmonary fellowship programs and training our fellows to be competent physicians, as well as for keeping all staff, including senior staff, up-to-date and familiar with the evaluation and treatment of patients with a wide spectrum of diseases. Periodic follow-up and treatment of patients previously entered on NHLBI protocols in order to monitor the long-term course of the underlying disease and the consequences of experimental treatments is also required for fellowship training, and for maintenance of good referral relationships with patients and their physicians. This study also allows for standard apheresis procedures for transplant donors and for care of volunteers who may present with a treatable condition.