Maxillofacial trauma and ocular injuries: reports from a prospective study from Pondicherry, India.

Purpose: To report the spectrum and the factors affecting the visual outcome of ocular injuries associated with maxillofacial trauma.

Methodology: A prospective observational study was carried out from January 2019 to June  2020 on patients of maxillofacial trauma at a rural tertiary care centre, in Pondicherry, India. Detailed history was obtained.

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy in typical retinitis pigmentosa.

A 39-year-old woman with typical retinitis pigmentosa (RP) for 9 years and a positive family history of night blindness was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM). She developed proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) during the course of disease. She was promptly managed with pan retinal photocoagulation (PRP).