Amerikanische Gesellschaft für Hirudotherapie

Knowledge Coverage Map

What ASH covers — and what remains open — across organ systems and evidence tiers.

Zuletzt aktualisiert: May 27, 2026Geprüft von: Andrei Dokukin, MD
Coverage analytics — institutional referenceAuto-updates as registries grow

ASH organizes its clinical knowledge into structured registries. This page is a live map: as new conditions, compounds, and trials are added, the counts and category distribution update automatically. There are no hand-maintained numbers.

Conditions by evidence tier

199 total conditions across three tiers. Honest framing: most off-label uses are Tier C investigational.

3Tier A

FDA-cleared

K040187: venous congestion in surgical flaps. The only formally FDA-cleared use of medicinal leech therapy.

10Tier B

Off-label with RCT support

Off-label uses with at least one RCT or systematic review. Common candidates: knee OA, chronic venous insufficiency, certain dermatology.

+ 5 more

186Tier C

Investigational

Mechanistic rationale, case series, small pilots. Includes many conditions that mainstream medicine has not researched.

+ 181 more

Coverage by organ system

Cross-walk to clinical-specialties pages. Numbers reflect the conditions registry.

Musculoskeletal

35

Tier A: 0 · Tier B: 4 · Tier C: 31

+ 31 more in this category

Dermatological

41

Tier A: 0 · Tier B: 0 · Tier C: 41

+ 37 more in this category

Neurological

37

Tier A: 0 · Tier B: 2 · Tier C: 35

+ 33 more in this category

What's still open

The 10,000-article target means current coverage is the foundation, not the destination. Major gaps actively being prioritized:

  • Translational pipeline depth: Each compound entry needs detailed drug-development trajectory (preclinical → FDA pathway → clinical context).
  • Pediatric protocols: Limited registry coverage; weight-based dosing absent in current literature.
  • Geographic regulatory survey: Many African, Oceanian, and Caribbean jurisdictions remain "unregulated" — honest marker, but needs ground-truth verification.
  • Recent RCT digestion (2024-2026): Continuous PubMed surveillance for new trials in OA, microsurgery, integrative pain medicine.
  • Translation parity: RU/ES/DE locales need ongoing medical-grade editorial pass across all 36 namespaces.

Researchers and clinicians can contribute via the Contact & Transparency page.

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