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Abstract Prevalence of refractive errors it is estimated that globally 153 million people over 5 years of age are visually impaired as a result of uncorrected refractive errors. Strabismus is an ocular misalignment or a tendency towards misalignment. Most patients with uncorrected hypermetropia will attempt to clear the image blur by increasing accommodative effort that will cause excess accommodative convergence. if fusional divergence is insufficient to compensate for this impulse to converge the eyes and in the presence of normal or high AC/A ratio, esotropia will develope. Refractive accommodative esotropia is an esotropia that is restored to orthotropia by optical correction of the underlying hypermetropia at all fixation distance and in all gaze positions. Summary 66 Anaemia in childhood is defined as a haemoglobin (Hb) concentration below established cut-off levels. Twelve percent of children <5 years ago in the developed countries and 51% of children in the same age group in developing countries are anemic. The likely cause of childhood anaemia varies depending on the area of the world that the child lives in. Overall, iron deficiency is the most common cause. Iron is important to the normal development and functioning of dopamineric neurons and that early changes could lead to permanent damage. Anemia is a disease, which affects many hematologic and nonhematologic systems. It has effects on biochemical changes of cellular functions, growth, psychomotor development, behavior, mental development, immune system, physical capacity, gastrointestinal system and thermo regulation. Summary 67 We have aimed to investigate the relationship between anemia and accommodative esotropia in children. Result of the study has demonstrated that accommodative esotropia may be caused by anemia, which is known to affect neurosensorial development. |