Optical Coherence Tomographic Finding in a Case of Congenital Macular Coloboma at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah

Abstract

Macular coloboma is a rare eye condition that affects around 0.5-0.7/10,000 of live births. Macular coloboma appears as a well-demarcated atrophic lesions that could affect one eye or both eyes on fundus examination. This is a case of a 33-year-old male patient who presented to the outpatient clinic with a history of poor vision in the left eye since childhood. He had a history of strabismus surgery for sensory exotropia (XT) in the left eye. Anterior segment examination of both eyes was normal while the fundus examination of both eyes revealed bilateral chorioretinal lesions in the macula which was larger in the left eye (OS) than the right eye (OD), representing bilateral chorioretinal coloboma. Congenital coloboma is a rare eye condition that leads to non-progressive decrease in visual acuity. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the modality of choice in diagnosing and describing macular coloboma.