Iris coloboma

¹Service d´Ophtalmologie B, Hôpital des Spécialités, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Maroc

^&Corresponding author
Karim Amhoud, Service d´Ophtalmologie B, Hôpital des Spécialités, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Maroc

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Coloboma is an eye abnormality that occurs during embryogenesis, it is a congenital defect typically presenting as a gap, hole or absent tissue in eye structures at a site consistent with aberrant closure of the optic fissure. It includes a spectrum of anomalies that ranges from iris coloboma to clinical anophthalmos. We report a case of a 63-years old female patient who suffered from bilateral progressing loss of visual acuity with no particular past medical history. The clinical examination found a typical inferonasal side iris coloboma and bilateral cataract without lens or zonular malformation. After the cataract cure, no chorioretinal or papillary involvement was found.

Figure 1: image showing bilateral infero-nasal iris coloboma