ArticleMolecular genetics and metabolism
Safety of laronidase delivered into the spinal canal for treatment of cervical stenosis in mucopolysaccharidosis I.
Article in Molecular genetics and metabolism. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neurosurgical manifestations and management of mucopolysaccharidoses: A systematic review.Neurosurgical review · 2026Pooled it
- Intrathecal enzyme replacement for cognitive decline in mucopolysaccharidosis type I, a randomized, open-label, controlled pilot study.Molecular genetics and metabolism · 2020Trial
- Choroid plexus-targeted viral gene therapy for alpha-mannosidosis, a prototypical neurometabolic lysosomal storage disease.Human molecular genetics · 2025Article
- "Mucopolysaccharidosis syndrome in a 9-Year-old boy: oral-dental management and diagnostic considerations": a case report.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I: Current Treatments, Limitations, and Prospects for Improvement.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Myelin and Lipid Composition of the Corpus Callosum in Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Mice.Lipids · 2020Article
- Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Evaluation of non-reducing end pathologic glycosaminoglycan detection method for monitoring therapeutic response to enzyme replacement therapy in human mucopolysaccharidosis I.Molecular genetics and metabolism · 2020Article
- Review
- Lysosomal Leukodystrophies Lysosomal Storage Diseases Associated With White Matter Abnormalities.Journal of child neurology · 2019Review
- Lysosomal diseases: Overview on current diagnosis and treatment.Genetics and molecular biology · 2019Article
- New treatments for the mucopolysaccharidoses: from pathophysiology to therapy.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2018Review
- Neurobehavioral phenotypes of neuronopathic mucopolysaccharidoses.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2018Review
- Cell therapy for diverse central nervous system disorders: inherited metabolic diseases and autism.Pediatric research · 2018Review
- Initiating Dialogue in Community-Partnered Participatory Research to Address Obesity in South Los Angeles.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2018Article
- Pathogenesis and treatment of spine disease in the mucopolysaccharidoses.Molecular genetics and metabolism · 2016Review
- Data from subjects receiving intrathecal laronidase for cervical spinal stenosis due to mucopolysaccharidosis type I.Data in brief · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Enzyme replacement therapy with laronidase (recombinant human alpha-l-iduronidase) is successfully used to treat patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I). However, the intravenously-administered enzyme is not expected to treat or prevent neurological deterioration. As MPS I patients suffer from spinal cord compression due in part to thickened spinal meninges, we undertook a phase I clinical trial of lumbar intrathecal laronidase in MPS I subjects age 8 years and older with symptomatic (primarily cervical) spinal cord compression. The study faced significant challenges, including a heterogeneous patient population, difficulty recruiting subjects despite an international collaborative effort, and an inability to include a placebo-controlled design due to ethical concerns. Nine serious adverse events occurred in the subjects. All subjects reported improvement in symptomatology and showed improved neurological examinations, but objective outcome measures did not demonstrate change. Despite limitations, we demonstrated the safety of this approach to treating neurological disease due to MPS I.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.