Sir,

The term retinitis pigmentosa (RP) describes a group of hereditary retinal dystrophies, characterized by the early onset of night blindness and progressive loss of the visual field. Associated findings include myopia, optic disc drusen, posterior subcapsular cataracts, and cystoid macular oedema. In addition to these common findings, RP can on occasions be found in conjunction with other ophthalmic syndromes. One such syndrome very rarely linked to RP is Fuchs' heterochromic uveitis (FHU), which has so far been described in a total of 12 patients.1,2,3,4 Of these 12 patients, only one had bilateral FHU (and an appearance of ‘salt and pepper’ in his fundi), the remainder being unilateral. More than 40 years following the first and only report of RP associated with bilateral FHU, we describe a second case.

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