Morning Glory Anomaly

Dr Farah Benlkadri¹, Dr Basma Ouidani¹, Dr El Mehdi El Filali¹, Dr  Youssef bennouk¹, Pr Hussein Ait lhaj¹, Pr Mohamed Kriet¹, Pr Fouad Elasri¹

1. Military Hospital of Marrakech, Ophthalmology Department.

*Correspondence to: Dr Farah Benlkadri, Military Hospital of Marrakech, Ophthalmology Department.

Copyright

© 2023 Dr Farah Benlkadri. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: 10 July 2023

Published: 01 August 2023

Morning glory anomaly is a rare congenital malformation of the optic nerve.1

In 1970 Kindler described this anomaly as “morning glory anomaly” because of its resemblance to the morning glory flower.2

It may be part of other systemic abnormalities, especially transsphenoidal basal encephalocele, cerebrovascular anomalies, including hypoplasia of the cerebral arteries and Moya moya. It is known as morning glory syndrome.3

Visual acuity varies depending on the extent of optic nerve anomaly. Amblyopia may be a contributing factor to the poor vision in unilateral cases.
We report a case of a young patient who consults for an optical correction. The best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in right eye and 6/10 in left eye. Examination of the ocular fundus revealed a Morning glory anomaly (Fig. 1).

Reference

1. Cennamo, G et al. 2009. Evaluation of Morning Glory Syndrome with Spectral Optical Coherence Tomography and Echography. Ophthalmology. 117:6, p1269–1273

2. Lee, BJ and Traboulsi, EI. 2008. Update on the Morning Glory Disc Anomaly. Ophthalmic Genetics 29:2, p47-52

3. Brodsky, M.C. 2010. Congenital Optic Disc Anomalies in Pediatric Neuro-ophthalmology. 2nd ed. New York: Springer