Successful desensitization to idursulfase in a patient with type II mucopolysaccharidosis (Hunter syndrome).

Hunter syndrome or type II mucopolysaccharidosis is a rare lysosomal storage disease of X-linked recessive inheritance. It is characterized by a lack of the enzyme iduronate 2 sulfatase (I2S), which leads to the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in many cells and tissues, resulting in myocardiopath...