Girl, 6, has sight miraculously restored thanks to life-changing eye gene therapy on NHS

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Girl, 6, has sight miraculously restored thanks to life-changing eye gene therapy on NHS.

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A 6-year-old girl has had her sight restored thanks to a life-changing eye gene therapy on the NHS.Saffie Sandford from Stevenage in Hertfordshire was diagnosed with a rare inherited condition called Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), which inhibits the protein creation in cells that are essential for normal vision.

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Children born with the condition typically have reduced vision in daylight and no vision at all in low light.

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The condition meant she could have potentially lost her sight completely by the age of 30.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Saffie, a Spider-Man fan, was five years old when her parents first noticed she was struggling to see in the dark and sought medical advice.She was diagnosed at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London before being referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital for the gene therapy treatment, known as Luxturna.The therapy is the first of its kind for one of the genetic causes of LCA and works by delivering a healthy copy of the faulty gene directly into...

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