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Multiple Elevated Serum and Urine Enzyme Activities

J. Kenneth Herd, MD; Allen D. Dvorak, MD; Hobart E. Wiltse, MD, PhD; James D. Eisen, MD; Barry C. Kress; Arnold L. Miller, PhD

Am J Dis Child. 1978;132(12):1181-1186.

Abstract
• The clinical characteristics of a 16-year-old white girl with mucolipidosis type III included early growth retardation, severe dysostosis multiplex, restricted joint motion, tight indurated skin, swollen eyelids, late-onset hepatosplenomegaly, umbilical hernia, corneal opacities, and only slightly impaired mental and neurological development. Cultured fibroblasts contained numerous coarse perinuclear refractile inclusions. Biochemical findings indicated the following: (1) normal levels of urinary acid mucopolysaccharides, (2) deficient activities of multiple lysosomal hydrolases in cultured fibroblasts, (3) elevated activity levels of seven serum lysosomal hydrolases, and (4) elevated activity levels of four lysosomal hydrolases in urine.

(Am J Dis Child 132:1181-1186, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Pediatrics (Dr Herd) and Radiology (Dr Dvorak), Creighton University School of Medicine; the Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center (Drs Wiltse and Eisen), Omaha; and the Department of Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego (Mr Kress and Dr Miller).

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, East Tennessee State University College of Medicine, PO Box 19840A, Johnson City, TN 37601 (Dr Herd).

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