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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 10 | Page : 2264 |
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Extensive myelinated nerve fibers in eye with colobomatous optic disk
Raj S Hirawat1, CK Nagesha2, Megha M Divakar2
1 Gomabai Netralaya, Neemach, Madhya Pradesh, India
2 B. W. Lions Superspeciality Eye Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
| Date of Web Publication | 23-Sep-2020 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. C K Nagesha
B. W. Lions Superspeciality Eye Hospital, J. C. Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2234_19
How to cite this article:
Hirawat RS, Nagesha C K, Divakar MM. Extensive myelinated nerve fibers in eye with colobomatous optic disk. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2264 |
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Hirawat RS, Nagesha C K, Divakar MM. Extensive myelinated nerve fibers in eye with colobomatous optic disk. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2020 Oct 31];68:2264. Available from: https://www.ijo.in/text.asp?2020/68/10/2264/295711 |
A 30-year-old female was evaluated for counting finger vision in squinting right eye. She was emmetropic and had essentially normal-looking fellow eye. Fundus showed extensive myelinated nerve fibers (MNF) involving posterior pole [Figure 1]a. Ultrasound-B scan revealed colobomatous defect involving optic nerve head [Figure 1]b. | Figure 1: Composite figure showing extensive myelinated retinal nerve fibers (a) with disk coloboma (b)
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MNF are generally isolated ocular findings except, rare coexistence of disk pit.[1],[2] Our case represents severe form with associated similar cavitatary disk anomaly. Myelination normally ceases at lamina cribrosa which prevents oligodendrocytes from migrating into retina.[3] We hypothesize that extensive myelination, in this case, could have facilitated by colobomatous optic nerve head and defective lamina cribrosa.
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| 2. | Jain DH, Natarajan KK. Rare association of optic disk pits with myelinated retinal nerves. J AAPOS 2017;21:429-30. |
| 3. | Tarabishy AB, Alexandrou TJ, Traboulsi EI. Syndrome of myelinated retinal nerve fibers, myopia, and amblyopia: A review. Surv Ophthalmol 2007;52:588-96. |
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