title: [Ocular findings in children with mucopolysaccharidosis].
abstract: 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 Médico 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.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología Pediátrica, Hospital General, Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. laura.camposc@imss.gob.mx
authors.forename: Laura Elena
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Campos-Campos
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pérez-Torres
authors.forename: Astrid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Villavicencio-Torres
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: González-Vite
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009083:Mucopolysaccharidoses / Q000150:complications*; D012189:Retrospective Studies