Associated convergence and accommodative insufficiency

✍ Scribed by Gunter K. Noorden; Darlene J. Brown; Margaret Parks

• Book ID: 104644167
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-4486
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00151826

✦ Synopsis

Nine patients were described with a syndrome consisting of accommodative and convergence insufficiency. All but two had received extensive orthoptic therapy without benefit in the past. Near points of convergence and accommodation, fusional amplitudes and the AC/A ratio were determined and the data compared with those from a group with ordinary convergence insufficiency. The results show that this syndrome is a distinct and separate entity from ordinary convergence insufficiency. Special therapeutic measures include base in prisms and bifocal correction.

Convergence insufficiency is a frequent problem in ophthalmologic practice and usually responds well to base out prisms and orthoptic training of fusional convergence. Occasionally, however, patients are encountered whose fusional amplitude and near point of convergence cannot be improved in spite of prolonged and intensive therapy. Further analysis of such cases may reveal the association of convergence insufficiency with a strikingly reduced near point of accommodation. In view of the special therapeutic problems posed by this