Research Article

Vergence and Accommodative Dysfunctions in Emmetropic and Myopic Chinese Young Adults

Table 1

Diagnostic criteria for vergence and accommodative dysfunctions.

Convergence Insufficiency
Requires 1, 2, and 3
1. Near exophoria at least 4△ greater than distance exophoria
2. Near point of convergence break point ≥6 cm
3. Reduced near positive fusional vergence (break point ≤15△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)

Convergence Excess
Requires 1
Plus at least 1 finding from 2 to 3
1. Near esophoria greater than distance esophoria by ≥4△
2. Reduced near negative fusional vergence (break point ≤7△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)
3. Near vergence facility ≤12 cycle per minute

Divergence Insufficiency
Requires 1 or 2+3
1. Distance esophoria greater than near esophoria by ≥10△
2. Distance esophoria greater than near esophoria by ≥4△
3. Reduced distance negative fusional vergence (break point ≤4△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)

Divergence Excess
Requires 1 or 2+3
1. Distance exophoria greater than near esophoria by ≥10△
2. Distance exophoria greater than near esophoria by ≥4△
3. Reduced distance positive fusional vergence (break point ≤11△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)

Basic Esophoria
Requires 1 and 2
Plus at least 1 finding from 3 to 4
1. Difference between near and distance esophoria ≤3△
2. Participant needs to be esophoric at both distant and near
3. Reduced near or distance negative fusional vergence (near break point ≤7△ or distance break point ≤4△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)
4. Near vergence facility ≤12 cycle per minute

Basic Exophoria
Requires 1 and 2
Plus at least 1 finding from 3 to 5
1. Difference between near and distance exophoria ≤3△
2. Participant needs to be exophoric at both distant and near
3. Reduced near or distance positive fusional vergence (near break point ≤15△ or distance break point ≤11△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)
4. Near point of convergence break point ≥6 cm
5. Near vergence facility ≤12 cycle per minute

Fusional Vergence Dysfunction
Requires 1 and 2
Plus at least 1 finding from 3 to 4
1. No significant phoria at distance and near (distance: exophoria ≤2△ to orthophoria; near: exophoria ≤5△ to orthophoria)
2. No other vergence dysfunction diagnosed
3. Reduced near positive or negative fusional vergence (positive fusional vergence break point ≤15△ or negative fusional vergence break point (NFV) ≤7△ or failed Sheard’s criterion)
4. Near vergence facility ≤12 cycle per minute

Accommodative Insufficiency
Requires 1
1. Monocular amplitude of accommodation ≥2 diopters below the minimum prediction (15-age/4)

Accommodative Infacility
Requires 1
1. Monocular accommodative infacility ≤6 cycle per minute