Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are rare disorders associated with enzyme deficiencies, resulting in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) accumulation in multiple organ systems. As patients increasingly survive to adulthood, the need for a smooth transition into adult care is essential. Using case studies, we outline strategies and highlight the challenges of transition, illustrating practical solutions that may be used to optimise the transition process for patients with MPS disorders.Seven MPS case studies were provided by four European inherited metabolic disease centres; six of these patients transferred to an adult care setting and the final patient remained under paediatric care. Of the patients who transferred, age at the start of transition ranged between 14 and 18 years (age at transfer ranged from 16 to 19 years).While there were some shared features of transition strategies, they varied in duration, the healthcare professionals involved and the management of adult patients with MPS. Challenges included complex symptoms, patients' unwillingness to attend appointments with unfamiliar team members and attachment to paediatricians. Challenges were resolved by starting transition at an early age, educating patients and families, and providing regular communication with and reassurance to the patient and family. Sufficient time should be provided to allow patients to understand their responsibilities in the adult care setting while feeling assured of continued support from healthcare professionals. The involvement of a coordinated multidisciplinary team with expertise in MPS is also key. Overall, transition strategies must be comprehensive and individualised to patients' needs.

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Background: Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are rare, inherited disorders associated with enzyme deficiencies that result in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) accumulation in multiple organ systems. Management of MPS is evolving as patients increasingly survive to adulthood and undergo multiple surgeries throughout their lives. As surgeries in these patients are considered to be high risk, this can result in a range of critical clinical situations in adult patients. Results: We discuss strategies to prepare for and manage critical clinical situations in adult patients with MPS, including supporting the multidisciplinary team, preoperative and airway assessments, surgical preparations, and postoperative care. We also present eight critical clinical cases (age range: 21-38 years) from four leading inherited metabolic disease centres in Europe to highlight challenges and practical solutions to optimise the care of adult patients with MPS. Critical clinical situations included surgical procedures, pregnancy and a thrombus in a port-acath. Conclusions: Individualised strategies to manage critical clinical situations need to be developed for each patient to compensate for the heterogeneous symptoms that may be present and the potential complications that may occur. These strategies should include input from the wider MDT, and be coordinated by metabolic specialists with expertise in the management of MPS disorders and surgery in adult patients with MPS.

Background: Cardiomyopathies in children are serious, continuously progressing myocardium diseases which are characterized by a variety of the causes, symptoms, implications, and high lethality. More than 400 genes that can cause hereditary heart and vessels diseases are described in scientific literature. The application of a high-performance method of massive parallel sequencing allows to conduct the investigation of genome extended targeted areas revealing the variants and analyzing them (bioinformatics) for pathogenicity.Aims: Identification of a genetic etiology of hereditary cardiomyopathies development in children’s population of the Russian Federation.Materials and methods: The research included 103 patients with various phenotypes of cardiomyopathies aged from 3 months up to 17 years 9 months who at the moment of examination were observed in the cardiology department and the department of recovery treatment with cardiovascular diseases in the NMRCCH. All patients were performed massive parallel sequencing analyzing the targeted areas of 404 genes which mutations lead to the development of heart and vessels hereditary diseases.Results: The diagnostic algorithm based on the method of a massive parallel sequencing was developed. 176 258 minor options were identified in the explored target areas of genome of 103 patients. An average number of the revealed nucleotide replacements different from the reference sequence was 1711. We observed that about 40% of all variants founded by our means were found in MYH7, MYBPC3, TTN, MYH6, SCN5A, DSC2 and TPM1 genes. Bioinformatics analysis allowed revealing 68 novel genome variants associated with cardiomyopathy development. The reliable association of carriage of pathogenic option in MYBPC3 gene with development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the Russian children was found.Conclusions: The application of the offered algorithm allowed establishing laboratory diagnoses to 99 (96.1%) patients out from 103 investigated subjects including the syndromal and non-syndromal forms of heart and vessels hereditary diseases which showed a cardiomyopathy phenotype.

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