Hypochromia - Hyphema

Okay, I've done a bunch of reasearch on this, but i'd like to check in and see if it's plausible. I'm hoping someone can confirm that this is possible.

Basically I have a male character who is born with green eyes, not hazel, green. He suffers some blunt head trama as a child which causes a hyphema (bleeding in the eye) in his left eye. The blood stains the green iris a dark brown which he retains for the rest fo his life.

It's questionable whether he has some sort of brain damage because the character is a bit psychotic.

I wanted him to retain normal vision.

Any comments will be helpful.
Thanks.

vixey said:

A friend's daughter was born with a blue eye and a brown eye - no hyphema involved.

Not really sure I understand your question, though.

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Sorry, I should have made it more clear. I know people can be born with hypochromia, but it's important for the character to have not been. I know it can be caused through using certain eye drops for types of glucoma, or various illnesses.

I couldn't find very much information on it being caused by an injury though. I found one artical referring to iron deposits staining the iris of a lighter coloured eye darker, but it didn't say how the iron deposits occured.

This is basically a 'is it plausible for it to happen this way' question. Sorry if I've thrown anyone by not being specific enough, I tend to do that al lot.

IceCreamEmpress said:

Heterochromia iriditis (different-colored eyes) can absolutely be caused by trauma to the eye or intra-ocular bleeding. See this pediatric opthalmology textbook for a discussion.

And Google "acquired heterochromia" for more links.

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Brilliant. Thanks for that, really helps me with the character.