Two patients with different features of congenital optic disc anomalies in the two eyes

Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2006 Feb;244(2):259-61. doi: 10.1007/s00417-005-0044-1. Epub 2005 Jul 15.

Abstract

Purpose: Description of two patients, each with different features of congenital optic disc anomalies in the two eyes.

Methods: Case report

Results: Patient 1, a 3-month-old girl, showed retinochoroidal coloboma involving the optic nerve in the right eye and optic nerve hypoplasia in the left eye. Patient 2, a 5-month-old boy, showed retinal fold extending inferiorly in the right eye and optic disc coloboma in the left eye.

Conclusions: Since in both cases coloboma was seen in one eye, the optic nerve hypoplasia or retinal fold in the fellow eye of these two patients may have been related to the timing of embryonic fissure opening or closing.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Choroid / abnormalities
  • Choroid / diagnostic imaging
  • Choroid / pathology
  • Coloboma / pathology*
  • Female
  • Fluorescein Angiography
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Optic Disk / abnormalities*
  • Optic Disk / diagnostic imaging
  • Optic Disk / pathology
  • Retina / abnormalities
  • Retina / diagnostic imaging
  • Retina / pathology
  • Ultrasonography