Additional convergence may along more accommodation than in non-exotropic children when controlling the exodeviation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPurpose<\/h2>\n
This study considered whether vergence drives accommodation or accommodation drives vergence during the control of distance exotropia for near fixation. High accommodative convergence to accommodation (AC\/A) ratios are often used to explain this control, but the role of convergence to drive accommodation (the CA\/C relationship) is rarely considered. Atypical CA\/C characteristics could equally, or better, explain common clinical findings.<\/p>\n
Methods<\/h2>\n
19 distance exotropes, aged 4-11 years, were compared while controlling their deviation with 27 non-exotropic controls aged 5-9 years. Simultaneous vergence and accommodation responses were measured to a range of targets incorporating different combinations of blur, disparity and looming cues at four fixation distances between 2m and 33cm. Stimulus and response AC\/A and CA\/C ratios were calculated.<\/p>\n
Results<\/h2>\n
Accommodation responses for near targets (p=0.017) response gains (p=0.026) were greater in the exotropes than the controls. Despite higher clinical stimulus AC\/A ratios, the distance exotropes showed lower laboratory response AC\/A ratios (p=0.02), but significantly higher CA\/C ratios (p=0.02). All the exotropes, whether the angle changed most with lenses (\u201ccontrolled by accommodation\u201d) or on occlusion (\u201ccontrolled by fusion\u201d), used binocular disparity not blur as their main cue to target distance.<\/p>\n
Conclusions<\/h2>\n
Increased vergence demand to control intermittent distance exotropia for near also drives significantly more accommodation. Minus lens therapy is more likely to act by correcting over-accommodation driven by controlling convergence, rather than by inducing blur-driven vergence. The use of convergence as a major drive to accommodation explains many clinical characteristics of distance exotropia, including apparently high near stimulus AC\/A ratios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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