Hunters Disease

Mucopolysaccharidosis type II MPS II also known as Hunter syndrome is an inherited disorder which causes a deficiency of the enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase I2S.
Hunters disease. How common is Hunter syndrome. It is also known as mucopolysaccharidosis type II or MPS II. Phenotypically there are two forms of Hunters syndrome.
The clinical and histological symptoms are characteristic for Hunters disease. Other new Bartonella spp including B. MPS II has a wide range of symptoms that vary in severity and can be managed and treated with enzyme replacement therapies.
Injury to various organs lead to the symptoms from the disease. I2S is involved in the breakdown of complex carbohydrates called mucopolysaccharides. Hurler syndrome also known as mucopolysaccharidosis Type IH MPS-IH Hurlers disease and formerly gargoylism is a genetic disorder that results in the buildup of large sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans AKA GAGs or mucopolysaccharides in lysosomes.
Hunters disease or Mucopolysaccharidosis II MPS II is an extremely rare inherited disease that only occurs in males. Ancashensis have been diagnosed in patients with a similar presentation to Carrions disease. This disease also has a spectrum of severity of clinical manifestations.
Carrions disease or South American bartonellosis is a bi-phasic arthropod-borne bacterial infection caused by the fastidious intracellular gram-negative bacterium Bartonella baciliformis. Hunters syndrome also called Mucopolysaccharidosis Ii rare sex-linked hereditary disorder that varies widely in its severity but is generally characterized by some degree of dwarfism mental retardation and deafness. Association with X5 chromosomal translocation disrupting the Hunter gene.
The symptoms usually start at 30 to 50 years of age but can begin earlier than this juvenile Huntingtons disease or much later. It takes its name from Charles Hunter the professor of medicine in Manitoba Canada who first described two brothers with the disease in 1917. Hunter syndrome is one of a group of diseases called mucopolysaccharidoses.