Ocular findings in children with mucopolysaccharidosis

OBJECTIVE: to describe the ocular findings in children with mucopolysaccharidosis at the Ophtalmology department. METHODS: clinical, descriptive, retrospective, transversal, and observational study was done. The cohort included patients under 16 years old, treated at the Hospital General, Centro Medico Nacional La Raza, with diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis. The variables were age, gender, damaged eye, visual acuity, ocular findings, type of mucopolysaccharidosis. RESULTS: there were 11 patients with mucopolysaccharidosis, 10 of them (90.9 %) full filled the inclusion criteria; nine were men. Mean age was 5.5 ± 2.8 years. There were ocular findings in both eyes in 60 % of the patients, 10 % of them in just one eye. The most frequent finding was corneal opacity (70 %), bilateral in 85.7 %, and in a single eye in 14.3 %. The ocular findings (40 %) were common in mucopolysaccharidosis type I. CONCLUSIONS: there is visual sequels secondary to mucopolysaccharidosis. It is important to study the ocular disorders in order to treat it timely and give to patients the immediate rehabilitation to improve the quality of life.