Medically reviewed by Johnstone M. Kim, MD A coloboma is a missing piece of tissue in a person's eye. It is a congenital condition (meaning one you are born with) that can affect any part of the ...

Colobomas are congenital defects of ... In all cases the person should be told about the possibility of complications if there is an optic nerve coloboma, namely, visual loss via retinal ...

The congenital defects most commonly associated with colobomas are cleft lip, bony defects ... The deeper the excavation produced by the coloboma, the higher is the risk of retinal detachment ...

The principal congenital abnormalities of the optic disc that ... Peripapillary choroidal neovascularisation has been described in association with optic nerve coloboma. 18 Retinal detachment ...

A coloboma of the choroid is characterized by congenital absence of part of the retinal pigment epithelium and choroid. It appears clinically as a prominent white zone within the ocular fundus ...

Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia & Coloboma Support (MACS) provides support to families of people born with Microphthalmia (small ...

A new study finds that Zika infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can impact fetal retinal development and cause congenital ocular anomalies. The virus does not appear to affect ocular ...

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) begins to damage the retina and cause vision loss in the first few months of a baby’s life. It affects 2 to 3 out of every 100,000 newborns.

When you have an inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD), a mutation in your genes changes the way your retina is able to work. While these disorders are considered to be rare, there are many different ...