Name: 史上首位眼球注射患者分享：革命性療法重見光明！| BBC News (Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient | BBC News)
Uploaded: 2026-01-12T16:54:23.000Z
Duration: 3 min 18 s

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Doctors say they've achieved the previously impossible restoring sight and preventing blindness in people with a rare but dangerous eye condition.

醫師們表示，他們已經做到了過去不可能的事，為罹患一種罕見但危險的眼疾的患者恢復視力並預防失明。

This pea sized drop of gel is saving people's sight.

這小小的豌豆大小的凝膠滴，正在拯救人們的視力。

A common and inexpensive substance repurposed with astonishing success.

一種常見且便宜的物質，以驚人的成功被重新利用。

It's somebody who by all rights should have lost her vision in both eyes and should have had, should have now really no vision at all, based on the way we used to practice who is now living life normally.

根據我們過去的診斷方式，她本來雙眼都應該失明，幾乎沒有任何視力，但現在她卻能正常生活。

Nikki Guy's eyes had such low pressure, known as hypotony, that the structure, the eyeballs were collapsing.

Nikki Guy 的眼睛因為壓力過低，也就是 hypotony，導致眼球結構塌陷。

It led to blindness in her right eye and then her left eye started rapidly deteriorating.

這導致她右眼失明，接著左眼也開始迅速惡化。

我根本看不清楚路，沒辦法在家裡走動。

I found it incredibly tough to get outside.

How am I going to see my child if he runs off?

如果我兒子跑開了，我怎麼看得到他？

He was quite young at that point, so there's.

I refuse to accept this as how it's going to be.

We've not had to do any treatments for a while now.

我們已經有一段時間沒有做任何治療了。

Nicola's doctor was also determined her left eye could still technically see if the eyeball around it could be re inflated.

Nicola 的醫生也曾認為，如果眼球周圍的組織能重新充氣，她的左眼理論上還是可以看到的。

But the commonly used filler, a silicone oil, is hard to see through.

但一般使用的填充物矽油，很難看穿。

The obvious thing to do would be to pump it up because if you have a ball that deflates, you pump it up.

顯而易見的做法就是把它充起來，因為如果一個球漏氣了，你會把它充起來。

And if you have a bike tire that deflates, you pump it up.

如果你的自行車輪胎漏氣了，你會把它充起來。

But you really need to do for vision is to pump it up with something that you can see through.

但為了視力，你真的需要用能看穿的東西把它充起來。

And if we're taking a young person who needs to be able to drive and needs to be able to look after her child and work, the quality of vision you get with silicone oil is not great.

而且如果我們說的是一個年輕人，她需要能夠開車、照顧小孩和工作，用矽油看到的視力品質其實不是很好。

And then came the idea of using the clear gel HPMC used for decades during other types of eye surgery.

然後就出現了使用透明凝膠 HPMC 的想法，這種凝膠在其他類型的眼科手術中已經使用了幾十年。

The really different thing about this approach is we're injecting the gel in the back of the eye.

這種做法真正不同的是，我們是將凝膠注射到眼球的後部。

And that had never really been done in a rigorous way.

而這其實從來沒有被嚴謹地做過。

And that was sort of the eureka moment that really changed everything.

這就是那個真正改變一切的「啊哈！」時刻。

It works as an iron to flatten off the retina.

它就像一個熨斗，能把視網膜弄平。

These scans of the eye show before treatment on the left and after on the right.

這些眼部掃描圖顯示左邊是治療前，右邊是治療後。

And while that may not look like a lot on these images, the difference between this picture and this picture with the retina being scrunched up or flat is the difference between being able to see and not see.

雖然在這些影像上看起來差異不大，但這張圖片和這張圖片之間，視網膜是皺縮還是平整的差異，就是能看見和看不見的差別。

Nicky is one of seven out of an initial eight patients treated monthly with gel injections who've seen dramatic improvements.

Nicky 是最初八名接受每月凝膠注射治療的患者中，有七位看到顯著改善的其中一人。

I used to take loads of photographs and be a keen photographer.

我以前喜歡拍很多照片，是個熱衷的攝影師。

At every birthday, I can make him a birthday cake.

每年的生日，我都能為他做生日蛋糕。

If my vision stays like this for the rest of my life, it would be absolutely brilliant.

如果我一輩子視力都保持這樣，那絕對是太棒了。

I mean, I may not ever be able to drive again, but

我的意思是，我可能再也無法開車了，但是

if it stays like this, then I'll take that.

如果能保持這樣，我就很滿足了。

It's hoped the gel will become the standard treatment, with hundreds, if not thousands, eventually benefiting.

希望這種凝膠能成為標準療法，最終造福數百甚至數千人。