Apart from visual observation of the tendency of the eyes to drift outward, symptoms are frequently absent [1], but when it is a constitutive feature of convergence insufficiency (CI), defined as inability to preserve normal eye alignment at near, it can present with symptoms such as eye fatigue, headaches, and double vision when attempting to perform activities that require near sight, for e.g. reading [2] [3]. CI, apart from exophoria, can be accompanied by a remote near point of convergence or decreased positive fusional vergence [3] [4]. Other symptoms that are reported in patients suffering from exophoria are the frequent loss of place when reading, print moving on the page, difficulty concentrating and a short attention span [2]. In some cases, hyperphoria - a permanent upward deviation of the visual axis of the eye, was described as well [5]. Some authors consider that severe exophoria progressively leads to intermittent exophoria, a type of strabismus and that it may develop as early as infancy [1].

• Fatigue

  […] the tendency of the eyes to drift outward, symptoms are frequently absent, but when it is a constitutive feature of convergence insufficiency (CI), defined as inability to preserve normal eye alignment at near, it can present with symptoms such as eye fatigue [symptoma.com]

  We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition. Last updated: May 28, 2019 [patientslikeme.com]

  When the eye muscles fatigue, exophoria can become, intermittently, an exotropia. [medhelp.org]

• Weakness

  Rarely, this is also found to be weak. If both accommodation and convergence are weak, reading glasses, sometimes with prism added, may be a great option for these patients. It is very difficult to improve accommodation with exercises. Updated 7/2017 [aapos.org]

  In such case suppression is weak and can be usually broken in a short time. If the child has intensively trained the amblyopic eye, visual acuity may become normal within a month. [smart-optometry.com]

  However, the primary issue of exophoria is a weakness in the eye muscles. This muscle weakness causes difficulty in what is called eye-teaming, or the ability to get the eyes to work together. This generally happens in childhood. [healthline.com]

• Pain

  Closing my eyes almost always works to stop pain. But lately I have been waking with pain. Doctor DanB : K [justanswer.com]

  Certainly the muscular inconvenience can be severe and the pain may be hard to stand. With the use of lenses that correct the hypermetropiatheis unbalance is virtually eliminated and there will be a tendency to return to the original conditions. [giarre.com]

  We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition. Last updated: May 28, 2019 [patientslikeme.com]

• Nausea

  Lorazepram helps to minimize and occasionally eliminate nausea. Can use odancetron if needed for nausea. Closing my eyes almost always works to stop pain. But lately I have been waking with pain. Doctor DanB : K [justanswer.com]

  Nausea and headaches are reported to be uncommon among patients with the primary form of DI, as are any history of head trauma or intracranial pathology. 8 The pattern of gradual onset is an important distinction from usually more sudden sixth-nerve palsy [reviewofophthalmology.com]

• Vomiting

  Clinical features of strabismus History-taking Red flags Recent trauma Symptoms of raised intracranial pressure (e.g. morning headaches, vomiting) New strabismus in a school-age child History of presenting complaint Onset (e.g. dependent on the direction [geekymedics.com]

• Strabismus

  Types of exotropia There are different forms of exotropia, let's know below what they are: congenital exotropia Congenital exophoria or divergent strabismus congenital is the one affects from birth causing childhood strabismus. [areaoftalmologica.com]

  H50.61 Brown's sheath syndrome H50.69 Other mechanical strabismus H50.8 Other specified strabismus Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes. [icd10data.com]

  Exophoria Synonym for Exophoria H00-H59 Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59)|H49-H52 Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction (H49-H52)|H50 Other strabismus|H50.5 Heterophoria Results for Exophoria and additional [averbis.com]

  J Am Assoc Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 1997; 1:134-137. ‎ [books.google.ro]

• Esotropia

  Pagina 16 - Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group: The clinical spectrum of early-onset esotropia: experience of the Congenital Esotropia Observational Study. Am J Ophthalmol 133:102-108, 2001 3. ‎ [books.google.ro]

  Divergent, non-paralytic squint is less common than esotropia, particularly in infancy and childhood, and increases with age. Amblyopia is rare. [gpnotebook.co.uk]

  Consecutive Exotropia Exotropia following surgical overcorrection of esotropia called consecutive exotropia. Treatment 1.Wait atleast for six month if deviation is not much. 2. [squintmaster.com]

  Otherwise, bimedial recession is usually the procedure of choice for a consecutive esotropia, especially if the esotropia is greater at near. [eyerounds.org]

• Headache

  Symptoms of basic esophoria include: eyestrain, headaches, blurred or double vision, apparent movement of print, and difficulty concentrating on and comprehending reading material. [naturaleyecare.com]

  Symptoms of Convergence Insufficiency (Headaches, Eyestrain, Anxiety, etc.) [convergenceinsufficiency.org]

  Symptoms of basic esophoria include: eyestrain, headaches, blurred or double vision, apparent movement of print difficulty concentrating on and comprehending reading material. [2020detroit.com]

  […] tendency of the eyes to drift outward, symptoms are frequently absent, but when it is a constitutive feature of convergence insufficiency (CI), defined as inability to preserve normal eye alignment at near, it can present with symptoms such as eye fatigue, headaches [symptoma.com]

• Confusion

  All rights reserved. ex·o·pho·ri·a (ek'so-fō'rē-ă), Do not confuse this word with esophoria. Tendency of the eyes to deviate outward when fusion is suspended. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

  Suppression – A Confused Brain In case you have not yet realized it, we each have two eyes. When we look at an object, the retina of each eye forms an image of its own. [zhealth.net]

  (Students are often confused by this because they remember that eso-phoric patients are corrected with base out, not base in. But we are not correcting esophoria, we are increasing it with base-in prism.) [opt.indiana.edu]

  I suspect that you've had some degree of xenophobia all your life and nmay have never developed complete and good stereoscopic (binocular) vision and therefore you don't get double vision because your brain never had the stereoscopic vision to get confused [justanswer.com]

Physicians can make a preliminary diagnosis just by close inspection of the eyes during the physical examination, while patient history can reveal signs and symptoms that indicate problems with near vision. Some tests, however, may be employed to confirm exophoria as the cause of symptoms. Firstly, simple cover testing and evaluation of accommodation can be performed, which will provoke the outward movement of the eye in virtually all cases. The Snellen chart should not be used as a sole diagnostic method, since it may reveal completely normal findings in patients suffering from exophoria. The severity of prism diopter (PD) deviation should be examined by skilled ophthalmologists, in order to evaluate the need for correction [3].

Treatment of Convergence Insufficiency Treatments for CI can be categorized as active or passive: Active treatment : A multi-site randomized clinical trial funded by the National Eye Insitute has proven that the best treatment for convergence insufficiency [convergenceinsufficiency.org]

Treatment options. Vision therapy is an effective treatment option. [naturaleyecare.com]

In the case of reoccurrence, treatments will again correct the condition. [healthline.com]

Tenacious proximal fusion is an indicator of a good surgical prognosis. [eyewiki.aao.org]

The conclusions drawn from his data are: A high AC/A is an indicator of a poor surgical prognosis and most of these patients have a consecutive esotropia at near. Tenacious proximal fusion is an indicator of a good surgical prognosis. [eyerounds.org]

The article on "Muscle Imbalance in Myopia" by Marlow 1 in the April issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology stressed an element in the etiology of progressive myopia which has been too long overlooked. [jamanetwork.com]

Keywords: accommodation • vergence • strabismus: etiology © 2011, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc., all rights reserved. [iovs.arvojournals.org]

[…] myopia as the sole cause of exophoria Baum [8] also reported that myopia cannot be held responsible for exophoria Pascal [9] was of the view that exophoria is almost always secondary to myopia Recently Burian [10] stated that the role of myopia in the etiology [ijo.in]

Etiology The etiology of exotropia is unknown, but on a rudimentary level there is impaired ability to maintain fusion and alignment. In the case of sensory exotropia, the poor acuity of one eye is the cause of the inability to maintain alignment. [eyewiki.aao.org]

All the statistical and epidemiologic analysis was performed using the statistical software SPSS 15.0 for Windows and the EPIDAT 3.1 program. 3. [hindawi.com]

Secondary Form The epidemiology of primary and secondary form appears similar, with highest incidence among adults, but pediatric cases are reported sporadically as well. [reviewofophthalmology.com]

hyper- Upwards-deviating hypo- Downwards-deviating cyclo- Tilted or torsed about an eye’s visual axis comitant Ocular deviation present in all directions of gaze incomitant Ocular deviation only present in specific directions of gaze Aetiology and epidemiology [geekymedics.com]

EPIDEMIOLOGY Variable incidence Affects 2.25-8.3% of population Bimodal peak incidence at High school or college age, when there is an increased demand for near work Early middle age, secondary to initiation of bifocal use and decreased accommodative [webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu]

Pathophysiology of exodeviation. In: symposium on horizontal ocular deviation. St. Louis, Ed. Manley DR. 1971 Mosby-Year Book, Inc., pg 119 ↑ 9.0 9.1 Costenbader FD. The physiology and management of divergent strabismus. [eyewiki.aao.org]

Pathophysiology of exodeviation. In: symposium on horizontal ocular deviation. St. Louis, Ed. Manley DR. 1971 Mosby-Year Book, Inc., pg 119 Costenbader FD. The physiology and management of divergent strabismus. [eyerounds.org]

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Latent vs Manifest The correct alignment of the eyes is guaranteed by normally functioning sensory and motor fusion mechanisms If sensory fusion is artificially prevented, by occlusion, distortion etc. motor fusion will be prevented and a measurable degree [slideshare.net]

Neuro-ophthalmological examination at an earlier stage could have prevented unnecessary neuroimaging and botulin injections. [bjo.bmj.com]

The symptoms I have obviously bother me, and I would consider this option to rid myself of them if therapy/prevention did not work. [medhelp.org]

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4. Scheiman M, Gwiazda J, Li T. Non-surgical interventions for convergence insufficiency. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;(3):CD006768.
5. Gupta NC, Narang RK, Khurana AK, Parmar IP, Ahluwalia BK. Exophoria and refractive errors-evaluation of 250 cases. Indian J Ophthalmol. 1987;35(4):204-206.