Exam 2 Flashcards
What is the purpose of fixation disparity?
Fixation disparity provides the error signal needed to stimulate continued compensation of the phoria
Because fixation disparity can be influenced by many things, what 2 things must you include when FD is measured clinically?
Test distance and type of test used.
What is associated phoria?
Prism to compensate the fixation disparity
Prism that neutralizes fixation disparity is usually in the ____ direction as their dissociated phoria
Same direction (exo/eso)
What is the fast response to prism?
Eyes use horizontal (not vertical) vergence to attempt to eliminate fixation disparity
The disparity vergence system is the response
Fast response
The vergence adaptation system is the response
Slow response
What is the slow response to prism?
Prism reduces the demand on the disparity vergence mechanism and reduces effectiveness of prescribed prism that compensates a heterophira.
What minimizes asthenopia during a sustained vergence demand?
The slow response (vergence adaptation system)
What is the Y intercept on the Forced Vergence fixation disparity curves?
The Fixation Disparity in arcmin with zero prism
What is the X intercept on the Forced Vergence fixation disparity curves?
It is the “associated phoria”, the amount of prism that neutralizes the fixation disparity
The slope of the Forced Vergence fixation disparity curve as it crosses the ___ axis is important. What does flat slope indicate?
Y axis. Flat slope indicates healthy vergence adaptation.
What is the prominent characteristic of type I fixation disparity pts?
Flatter central region, S-shaped
Esophores that poorly adapt to base in prism are typically Type ___ Fixation disparity?
Type II
Type ___ FD is found most often in highly exophoric patients who adapt poorly to BO prism
Type III
Type ___ FD don’t really react to any prism
Type IV
Fixation disparity is measured in ____ of arc
Minutes of arc
Prism adaptation happens in the ____ part of the Fixation disparity curve.
Flat
If a patient doesn’t have a flat portion on their fixation disparity curve….they will do (well/poor) with prism prescribed
Well with prism because steep slopes indicate poor adaptation, meaning they won’t “eat” the prism and adapt nor induce more fixation disparity
If you do prescribe prism to relieve symptoms, get them to the ___ part of their FD curve
Flat part
What is anomalous retinal correspondence?
It’s an adaptation to strabismus of EARLY childhood onset. It suppresses the fovea by neurologically remapping visual directions in the deviated eye. This is NOT eccentric fixation because ARC is binocular
How do you diagnose anomalous retinal correspondence?
You need to make sure there is no eccentric fixation in either eye, then they can be tested with the Hering-Bielschowsky afterimage test.
What is the Hering-Bielschowsky afterimage test? What does it test? What are the steps?
It’s a test that measures anomalous retinal correspondence. The strab eye looks at vertical flash, then good eye looks at horizontal flash. The after images will make a cross (or not) when pt looks binocularly at a flat surface
What is the objective angle (H)?
Ocular deviation is measured wo/ pt input (cover test or Krimsky test)
What is the subjective angle (S)?
Ocular deviation is measured with pt input
What is the angle of anomaly (A)?
The difference between objective and subjective angles (A= H-S)
What is the angle H?
Objective angle, no pt input (use cover test or Krimsky test)
What is “point zero”?
The point on the retina of the deviated eye that is considered “looking straight ahead”. For normal people, this is the macula but for tropes it’s nasal or temporal retina.
What is “point a”?
The point on the retina of the deviated eye that is is the anomalous “fovea” and corresponds with looking straight ahead under binocular conditions.
How does point zero and point “a” match in Harmonious ARC (anomalous retinal correspondence)?
They are the same point! Both points are deviated from the fovea.
How does point zero and point “a” match in unharmonious ARC (anomalous retinal correspondence)?
The subjective angle (S) is is smaller than the objective angle (H). It’s like subjectively the person is trying to get the image closer to their fovea. “a” is in between point 0 and Fovea
How does point zero and point “a” match in paradoxical ARC type 1 (anomalous retinal correspondence)?
The subjective measurement (s) is on the OPPOSITE side of “point 0” compared to what they were measured objectively. The anomalous angle is bigger and the in the same direction of objective angle (H)
How does point zero and point “a” match in paradoxical ARC type 2 (anomalous retinal correspondence)?
The subjective angle is even more severe than the objective angle. The angle of anomaly is smaller than subjective (s) but and is in the opposite direction.
What kind of strab pt can “pass” the maddox rod test?
If they have harmonious anomalous retinal correspondence, they’ll pass the test because of their remapped “fovea”. This because point 0 and point “a” are the same point.
What kind of patient will see uncrossed on the maddox rod test?
An eso with normal retinal correspondence or
an eso with unharmonious anomalous retinal correspondence
What kind of patient will see crossed on the maddox rod test even though they are an esotrope?
PAC type 1 (Paradoxical anomalous retinal correspondence)
What kind of patient will see a HUGE uncrossed maddox rod test even though they are a small esotrope?
PAC type 2 (Paradoxical anomalous retinal correspondence)
What is the Hess-Lancaster test?
It subjectively measures the misalignment of the images seen by the two eyes AS SEEN BY THE PATIENT. in different positions of gaze.
Doctor uses red/green light to fixate an eye and the patient has to superimpose their light onto the doctor’s.
What will an esotrope with NRC see on the Hess-lancaster test when the lights are physically superimposed?
They will see the lights separate and uncrossed.
What is Covariation?
When eyes have both NRC and ARC (anomalous retinal correspondence) as in the case of intermitant tropes, varying strabismus angles, and different tests.
What does the X mean in the Hess-lancaster test? The circle? What does it mean if they are crossed in the test results?
It represents the eye being tested. The circle is the fixating eye. Crossed test results means uncrossed diplopia for the maddox rod test.
How do we know if an object is on someone’s horopter? For an observer with NORMAL binocular vision, objects that stimulate corresponding points will….3
1 Be perceived as having the same visual direction in each eye;
2. Be perceived as being equidistant from the observer as the fixation point;
3. Have ZERO binocular disparity;
4 Be perceived as single (i.e., result in “haplopia”, not “diplopia”)
5. NOT stimulate a reflexive motor vergence response when introduced
into the field of view.
What are the 5 ways to locate the horopter?
1 Identical visual directions (aka “nonius horopter”)
- Equidistance (AFPP)
- Singleness (haplopia)
- Minimum stereoacuity threshold
- Zero vergence
What is Identical visual directions?
Helps locate the horopter. Have an object appear differently to each eye and move them a proper distance so they line up
What is Equidistance?
It helps locate the horopter. Even though objects arc along panum’s fusional area, they appear to be straight (paralell to the person’s face)
Which horopter tool is more precise in untrained subjects?
Equidistance (things appear straight even though it’s arced along horopter)
What is singleness (haplopia)
It helps locate the horopter. The singleness horopter is the center of Panum’s fusional area where the horopter is. Moving in and out until diplopia is experienced measures the extend of PFA.
What is Minimum stereoacuity threshold?
A more complicated way of measuring and locating the horopter. You move the test rod until depth appears differnet (not dipolipa)