My son was born with the rare condition of two pupils in one eye. Can we remove one?
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My son was born with the rare condition of two pupils in one eye. Can we remove one?
This a very rare eye condition, it is called polycoria. It’s a situation where an eye can one two or more pupils, one can be bigger than the other. This condition often lead to several other eye conditions such as glaucoma, double vision, and polar cataract. There is no known cause of this condition yet but people say it’s mostly genetics.
Doctors only recommend surgery if polycoria is causing poor vision in a patient, if not, there is no need to treat polycoria of course unless it’s affecting the person. If the vision is affected, doctor may have to perform pupilloplasty, an operation in which the surgeon cuts the iris “bridge” that separates the multiple pupils, joining them into a single pupil.