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Table 7 Comparing the increase in accommodative load from monocular to binocular viewing between the fixating and deviating eyes of IXT patients with fixation preferences

From: Clinical exhibition of increased accommodative loads for binocular fusion in patients with basic intermittent exotropia

Target distance

Fixating eye, D

Deviating eye, D

p *

6 m

0.23 ± 0.58 (−0.51 to 1.88)

0.20 ± 0.58 (−0.82 to 1.12)

0.653

50 cm

0.42 ± 0.73 (−1.55 to 1.38)

0.37 ± 0.77 (−1.74 to 1.44)

0.368

33 cm

0.88 ± 0.74 (−0.07 to 2.56)

0.67 ± 0.68 (−0.63 to 0.62)

0.356

20 cm

0.89 ± 1.05 (−0.44 to 2.81)

0.97 ± 1.08 (−1.63 to 3.07)

0.435

  1. IXT intermittent exotropia, D diopters
  2. *Mann–Whitney test