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. 2017 Mar 16;40(1):31–39. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2016-0268

Table 4. Lysosomal storage diseases diagnosed from 1982 to 2015 in Brazilian patients*.

Lysosomal storage disease Number of confirmed diagnoses Additional probable diagnosis**
Mucopolysaccharidoses
Mucopolysaccharidosis type I 225 11
Mucopolysaccharidosis type II 343 4
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA 52 -
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB 88 -
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIC 52 -
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA 153 -
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVB 13 -
Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI 238 3
Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII 20 -
Multiple sulphatase deficiency 6 -
Glycoproteinoses
Aspartylglucosaminuria 1 -
Fucosidosis 4 -
Galactosialidosis 19 -
α-Mannosidosis 7 1
Mucolipidosis II/III 41 8
Sialidosis 14 -
Sphingolipidoses
Fabry disease 104 3
Gaucher disease 725 2
GM1 gangliosidosis 175 -
GM2 Tay-Sachs disease (44% B1) 121 3
GM2 Sandhoff disease 28 -
Krabbe disease 96 -
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy 150 -
Niemann-Pick type A/B disease 199 5
Other LSDs
Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency 10 7
Neuronal Ceroid lipofuscinosis 1 (CLN1) 3 -
Neuronal Ceroid lipofuscinosis 2 (CLN2) 14 3
Niemann-Pick type C 150 -
Pompe disease 47 9
Salla disease 1 -
Total 3099 59
*

Classified as proposed by Kingma et al., 2015).

**

Cases with only one sample of DBS analyzed, not considered as confirmed cases.