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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 613 |
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Spades prove enantiomorphism in congenital cataract
Amber Amar Bhayana, Vipasha Sharma, Priyanka Prasad, Sudarshan Kumar Khokhar, Md. Sohail Alam
Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
| Date of Web Publication | 13-Apr-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
Amber Amar Bhayana
Dr R P Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110 029
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_123_22
How to cite this article:
Bhayana AA, Sharma V, Prasad P, Khokhar SK, Alam MS. Spades prove enantiomorphism in congenital cataract. Indian J Ophthalmol Case Rep 2022;2:613 |
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Bhayana AA, Sharma V, Prasad P, Khokhar SK, Alam MS. Spades prove enantiomorphism in congenital cataract. Indian J Ophthalmol Case Rep [serial online] 2022 [cited 2022 May 18];2:613. Available from: https://www.ijoreports.in/text.asp?2022/2/2/613/342872 |
A 7-year-old healthy male was found to have bilateral cataract [Figure 1]. Two morphologies were noted in either eye: first, a “spade” shaped posterior cortical opacity; and second, a “nuclear pulverulent” type. A congenital cataract (blue dot/zonular/pulverulent/nuclear/membranous/totally white)[1] is usually three-dimensionally symmetric in itself, such that if it exists bilaterally, it is actually enigmatous to call it bilaterally symmetrical, or these cataracts can secondly be completely irregular, making their comparison for similarity with their counter-eye difficult. Here we have a spade cataract in either eye, which in itself is not three-dimensionally symmetrical, but when compared to its fellow eye, is exactly a mirror image. We would like to conclude by describing a new spade-shaped congenital cataract and through it, document “literal-bilateral symmetricality” or “enantiomorphism”[2] among congenital cataracts. | Figure 1: Retro-illumination showing spade cataract in (a) right eye, (b) left eye; oblique illumination showing spade cataract in (c) right eye, (d) left eye; oblique illumination showing nuclear pulverulent cataract in (e) right eye, (f) left eye; anterior segment optical coherence tomography showing both morphologies in (g) right eye, (h) left eye
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| 1. | Khokhar SK, Pillay G, Dhull C, Agarwal E, Mahabir M, Aggarwal P. Pediatric cataract. Indian J Ophthalmol 2017;65:1340-9.  [ PUBMED] [Full text] |
| 2. | Bhayana AA, Prasad P, Gupta A. Enantiomorphism-Cornea for a cornea, eye for an eye. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:1181. |
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