The risk for acquired retinal detachment in children with optic nerve coloboma or chorioretinal coloboma may be lower than previously thought, according to a study.
“Retinal detachment associated with chorioretinal or optic nerve coloboma is quite uncommon during childhood but does occur,” corresponding author Gil Binenbaum, MD, MSCE, chief of ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told Healio/OSN. “Children are unlikely to report symptoms, so regular fundus exams to check for a break or detachment make sense.”
The authors conducted a retrospective