Forced Convection Mechanism Failure in the Eye Can Cause Macular Degeneration

Abstract

Although the exact causes for presbyopia are not known with certainty, there is the general understanding that it is associated with aging. This is one of the major paradigms of science because the analysis of the symptoms observed during the treatment of presbyopia in the first author of this paper indicates that presbyopia is associated with metabolic dehydrated secretions that have accumulated in various parts of the eyes. As a process of accumulation it is not difficult to associate it statistically to aging. The metabolic secretions produced by the cells inside the human eye are accumulated simultaneously in the cornea, trabecular meshwork, in the lens and retina, subject only to its origin, however, the symptomatology is well characterized by the location of accumulation. Genetic factors are directly related to how the clumps of metabolic secretions occur and the accumulation form is very specific according to the movement of the eyes based on the activities performed by the patient, so any outcome is unpredictable. This paper introduces the hypothesis that macular degeneration may be caused by transport mechanism failure by forced convection of nutrients and metabolic mass produced by the retina. The hypothesis examined in this paper considers the symptoms observed during treatment of presbyopia the first author, the analysis of some clinical procedures to diagnose the degeneration, the symptoms described in the publications on this subject as well as showing how some genetic factor may anticipate the disease. It is not hard to make a statistical association of macular degeneration with aging in the hypothesis that it is caused by of metabolic accumulation of secretions produced in the retina.