New gel injection restores sight for patients with hypotony

A revolutionary eye injection has restored sight for the first patient treated for a rare condition causing blindness. The new gel injection therapy, using a transparent substance already used in eye surgery, has successfully treated hypotony, a condition where eye pressure dangerously drops, causing the eye to collapse. Moorfields Hospital in London is pioneering this treatment, with seven out of eight patients in a pilot study showing positive responses, offering hope to many who previously faced irreversible vision loss.