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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Storm Newton

Experts use ‘filler’ treatment to restore sight in people with rare condition

Harry Petrushkin, left, led the study into the new treatment for patients with hypotony (Moorfields Eye Hospital/PA) - (Moorfilelds Eye Hospital/PA)

People with a rare and untreatable condition that causes blindness have had their sight restored with injections of a low-cost gel used in most eye surgeries.

The process, which restores pressure in the eye to improve vision, is “not dissimilar to cosmetic fillers”, specialists said.

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