title: Consensual accommodation.
abstract: Consensual accommodation, like other consensual responses, may be a useful diagnostic indicator. The consensual interocular lag (direct accommodative response minus consensual accommodative response) was measured under a variety of accommodative conditions in four normal subjects, one of whom later underwent cryosurgery for a retinal tear. There was no consensual interocular lag when subjects were orthophoric , but when slightly exophoric at near distances a small lag does occur. A subject with large exophorias at near showed a more complex accommodative pattern. The consensual interocular lag proved to be the most sensitive measure of accommodative loss and subsequent recovery after retinal cryosurgery.
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D000328:Adult; D003452:Cryosurgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000601:surgery; D013285:Strabismus / Q000503:physiopathology