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Systemic Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II

Trexler M. Topping, MD; Kenneth R. Kenyon, MD; Morton F. Goldberg, MD; A. Edward Maumenee, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1971;86(2):164-177.

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THE SYSTEMIC mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are of ophthalmologic interest because about 75% of patients with these inherited disorders of mucopolysaccharide metabolism develop clinically significant corneal clouding.¹ The histologic and ultrastructural pathologic condition of the clouded corneas from these patients has been the subject of many reports.^2-7 However, only one report⁸ has described the ocular histopathology of a systemic MPS case with clear corneas, which occurred in a patient with Hunter's syndrome.

Hunter's syndrome (systemic MPS type II), one of the six or more variants of the systemic MPS,¹ resembles the more common Hurler's syndrome (gargoylism, systemic MPS type I) in several respects. Clinically, Hunter's syndrome appears as a less severe form of Hurler's with respect to progressive growth and mental retardation, coarse gargoyle-like facies, multiple skeletal deformities, hepatosplenomegaly, and early death. Both syndromes are also characterized by the increased urinary excretion and excessive tissue accumulations of two . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Baltimore

From the Wilmer Ophthlamological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, Baltimore.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 5, 1970.

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