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Associated convergence and accommodative insufficiency

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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.

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  1. Gunter K. Von Noorden M.D.

    Present address: Dept. of Ophthalmology, Texas Children's Hospital, Texas Medical Center, 11025, Houston, Texas, USA

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    Gunter K. Von Noorden M.D., Darlene J. Brown A.B., O.T. & Margaret Parks O.T.

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From the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

This study was supported by Research Grant EY-00274 from the National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

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Von Noorden, G.K., Brown, D.J. & Parks, M. Associated convergence and accommodative insufficiency. Doc Ophthalmol 34, 393–403 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151826

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