Intraocular currents, Bernoulli's principle and non-drainage scleral buckling for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

ABSTRACT: For many years, it is not fully understood how non-drainage scleral buckling surgery brings about spontaneous reattachment of the detached retina when retinal breaks remain open at the end of surgery. Various explanations have been put forward, but none more interesting than the effect of fluid currents associated with eye movements. One such explanation involved the physics of the Bernoulli's principle. Daniel Bernoulli was an eighteenth century Swiss mathematician and he described an equation based on the conservation of energy. The sum of pressure energy, potential energy and kinetic energy remains constant. Bernoulli's equation usually applies to closed system such as the flow of fluid through pipes. When fluid flows through a constriction, the speed of fluid increases, the kinetic ene

SUBMITTER: Wong D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811744 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature