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Case Reports
. 2021 Apr 29;51(2):123-126.
doi: 10.4274/tjo.galenos.2020.66909.

A Case of Multiple Optic Disc Pits: 21-Year Follow-up

Osman Melih Ceylan  1 , Alper Can Yılmaz  1 , Ali Hakan Durukan  1 , Mehmet Talay Köylü  1 , Fatih Mehmet Mutlu  1
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Case Reports

A Case of Multiple Optic Disc Pits: 21-Year Follow-up

Osman Melih Ceylan et al. Turk J Ophthalmol. .

Abstract

Optic disc pits (ODP) are an uncommon congenital abnormality. Patients remain asymptomatic unless they develop maculopathy. The use of optic coherence tomography has critical benefits in the follow-up of patients who are at the amblyogenic age. The aim of this study is to present a case of double ODP in the right eye and single ODP in the left eye in a partially accommodative esotropia patient followed for 21 years. To our knowledge, multiple ODP has never been described in a patient with partially accommodative esotropia.

Keywords: Accommodative esotropia; multifocal electroretinography; optic disc pit; optical coherence tomography.

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Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Color fundus and red-free photographs of the right and left eye. A, B) Two optic disc pits located temporally (arrow) and nasally (arrowhead) in the right eye and one optic disc pit located nasally (arrowhead) in the left eye. C, D) The double optic disc pit in the right eye and single optic disc pit in the left eye are clearly observed
Figure 2
Figure 2
A) Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) shows subfoveal deposits at age 19. B) Subfoveal deposits are not seen on SD-OCT at final follow-up 6 years later. C) Swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) of the right eye shows the temporal (arrowhead) and nasal (arrow) optic disc pits. Fluid under the optic nerve head appears as a hyporeflective area (star) and an intrapapillary septum structure is seen between the accumulation of fluid under the optic nerve head and the optic disc pit (circle). D) SS-OCT of the left eye shows a shallow optic disc pit (arrow) located nasally and associated vitreous fibers
Figure 3
Figure 3
A) In the visual field, blind spot enlargement is observed in the right eye. B) No visual field defect is seen in the left eye. C) Multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) revealed low amplitudes correlated with 2º of the macula in the right eye. D) mfERG is normal in the left eye
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