Morning Glory Optic Nerve Head
Thus the morning glory disc is sometimes misdiagnosed as an optic nerve coloboma.
Morning glory optic nerve head. Morning glory anomaly is a rare congenital malformation of the optic nerve. Morning glory disc anomaly is rare and is more commonly found in females 2. Morning glory disc anomaly disease. When it is associated with systemic signs and symptoms it is known as morning glory syndrome.
Optic disc pits were regarded as atypical colobomas by grear 3 who reviewed the subject in 1942. There are some similarities to optic disc coloboma with interference in the closure of the posterior aspect of the fetal fissure. The coloboma results in a funnel shaped optic nerve head with a white dot in the center an elevated ring of pigment around the disk and vessels radiating out from the ring like spokes. Morning glory syndrome mgs is a birth congenital defect of the nerve of the eye optic nerve that resembles a flower known as morning glory it is characterized by an enlarged funnel shaped cavity of the optic disc the point in the eye where the optic nerve fibers leave the retina the disc is enlarged and has a white center giving the appearance of a white pupil.
Associated with high myopia and buphthalmos naion is common in smaller on heads due to problems of vascular perfusion and of limited space same is true for optic nerve head drusen due to blockage of orthograde axoplasmic flow. Cavities in the optic nerve head. Patients may be initially referred for leukocoria or strabismus and present with variable visual acuity which depends on the extent of the optic nerve anomaly. Excavated and colobomatous defects of the optic nerve head encompass a spectrum of abnormalities including tilted discs peripapillary staphyloma morning glory disc anomaly colobomas and congenital optic disc pits.
A birth defect of the optic nerve the nerve to the eye in which there is a coloboma cleft of the optic disc. Visual field defects and enlarged blind spots are also common 3.