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Negative Fusional Vergence Is Abnormal in Children with Symptomatic Convergence Insufficiency
Optometry and vision science, v 98(1), pp 32-40
01 Jan 2021
PMID: 33394929
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Abstract
SIGNIFICANCE
Deficits of disparity divergence found with objective eye movement recordings may not be apparent with standard clinical measures of negative fusional vergence (NFV) in children with symptomatic convergence insufficiency. PURPOSE
This study aimed to determine whether NFV is normal in untreated children with symptomatic convergence insufficiency and whether NFV improves after vergence/accommodative therapy. METHODS
This secondary analysis of NFV measures before and after office-based vergence/accommodative therapy reports changes in (1) objective eye movement recording responses to 4 degrees disparity divergence step stimuli from 12 children with symptomatic convergence insufficiency compared with 10 children with normal binocular vision (NBV) and (2) clinical NFV measures in 580 children successfully treated in three Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial studies. RESULTS
At baseline, the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial cohort's mean NFV break (14.6 +/- 4.8 Delta) and recovery (10.6 +/- 4.2 Delta) values were significantly greater (P < .001) than normative values. The post-therapy mean improvements for blur, break, and recovery of 5.2, 7.2, and 1.3 Delta, respectively, were statistically significant (P < .0001). Mean pre-therapy responses to 4 degrees disparity divergence step stimuli were worse in the convergence insufficiency group compared with the NBV group for peak velocity (P < .001), time to peak velocity (P = .01), and response amplitude (P < .001). After therapy, the convergence insufficiency group showed statistically significant improvements in mean peak velocity (11.63 degrees/s; 95% confidence interval [CI], 6.6 to 16.62 degrees/s), time to peak velocity (-0.12 seconds; 95% CI, -0.19 to -0.05 seconds), and response amplitude (1.47 degrees; 95% CI, 0.83 to 2.11 degrees), with measures no longer statistically different from the NBV cohort (P > .05). CONCLUSIONS
Despite clinical NFV measurements that seem greater than normal, children with symptomatic convergence insufficiency may have deficient NFV when measured with objective eye movement recordings. Both objective and clinical measures of NFV can be improved with vergence/accommodative therapy.
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- Title
- Negative Fusional Vergence Is Abnormal in Children with Symptomatic Convergence Insufficiency
- Creators
- Mitchell M. Scheiman - Salus UniversityTara L. Alvarez - New Jersey Institute of TechnologySusan A. Cotter - Marshall B. Ketchum UniversityMarjean T. Kulp - SUNY College of OptometryLoraine T. Sinnott - SUNY College of OptometryMaureen D. Plaumann - SUNY College of OptometryJasleen Jhajj - Nova Southeastern University
- Publication Details
- Optometry and vision science, v 98(1), pp 32-40
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- 1R01EY023261 / National Eye Institute; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Eye Institute (NEI) MRI CBET 1428425 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000615901100006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85099332059
- Other Identifier
- 991021900020904721
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- Ophthalmology