Diseases

Mucopolysaccharidoses

Group of lysosomal storage diseases each caused by an inherited deficiency of an enzyme involved in the degradation of glycosaminoglycans (mucopolysaccharides). The diseases are progressive and often display a wide spectrum of clinical severity within one enzyme deficiency.

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Abstract

Group of lysosomal storage diseases each caused by an inherited deficiency of an enzyme involved in the degradation of glycosaminoglycans (mucopolysaccharides). The diseases are progressive and often display a wide spectrum of clinical severity within one enzyme deficiency.

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  • Mucopolysaccharidosis

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34 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

lysosomal storage dis; types I through VII except V are available as main headings: V = MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS V see MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS I; do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES

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History Note

92; was MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS 1974-91

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QU 265.5.C3

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Mucopolysaccharidoses. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009083. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009083
  2. Mucopolysaccharidoses. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucopolysaccharidosis
  3. Mucopolysaccharidoses. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479681