PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sonia Toor
AU  - Anna M Horwood
AU  - Patricia Riddell
TI  - Asymmetrical accommodation in hyperopic anisometropic amblyopia
AID  - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-310282
DP  - 2017 Oct 19
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - bjophthalmol-2017-310282
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/19/bjophthalmol-2017-310282.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/19/bjophthalmol-2017-310282.full
AB  - Background/aims To investigate the presence of asymmetrical accommodation in hyperopic anisometropic amblyopia.Methods Accommodation in each eye and binocular vergence were measured simultaneously using a PlusoptiX SO4 photorefractor in 26 children aged 4–8 years with hyperopic anisometropic amblyopia and 13 controls (group age-matched) while they viewed a detailed target moving in depth.Results Without spectacles, only 5 (19%) anisometropes demonstrated symmetrical accommodation (within the 95% CI of the mean gain of the sound eye of the anisometropic group), whereas 21 (81%) demonstrated asymmetrical accommodation. Of those, 15 (58%) showed aniso-accommodation and 6 (23%) demonstrated ‘anti-accommodation’ (greater accommodation for distance than for near). In those with anti-accommodation, the response gain in the sound eye was (0.93±0.20) while that of the amblyopic eye showed a negative accommodation gain of (−0.44±0.23). Anti-accommodation resolved with spectacles. Vergence gains were typical in those with symmetrical and asymmetrical accommodation.Conclusion The majority of hyperopic anisometropic amblyopes demonstrated non-consensual asymmetrical accommodation. Approximately one in four demonstrated anti-accommodation.