Marie-Josée Aubin

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Departments of Ophthalmology and of Social and Preventive Medicine

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted the practice of medicine, causing stress and uncertainty among ophthalmologists. This cross-sectional, survey-based study of Canadian Ophthalmological Society members (n = 1152) aims to report on Canadian ophthalmologists’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four questionnaires were...

This study reports three cases of toxoplasmosis retinochoroiditis following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection or vaccination from the national Canadian COVID-19 Eye Registry between December 2020 and September 2021. A 56-year-old male presented 15 days after a positive COVID-19 test with toxoplasmosis retinochoroiditis. He later relapse...

Purpose To examine the longitudinal association between vision-related variables and the 3-year change in cognitive test scores in a community-dwelling sample of adults and to explore whether sex, education, or hearing loss act as effect modifiers. Methods Data came from two waves of a 3-year population-based prospective cohort study (Canadian Lon...

This case illustrates the rare presentation of endogenous Klebsiella pneumoniae endophthalmitis with concomitant orbital cellulitis from an acute pyelonephritis. A 59-year-old Caucasian female with type 2 diabetes mellitus was transferred from a regional hospital with decreased visual acuity, periorbital edema, photophobia, proptosis and pain of th...

Purpose: To determine the relationship between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ocular outcomes such as visual impairment and age-related eye disease. Methods: Baseline data were used from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The Comprehensive Cohort consisted of 30,097 adults ages 45 to 85 years. Annual mean PM2.5 levels (µg/m3) for eac...

Purpose: To understand the relationship between visual impairment, self-reported eye disease, and the onset of balance problems. Design: Population-based prospective cohort study METHODS: : Baseline and 3-year follow-up data were used from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The Comprehensive Cohort included 30,097 adults ages 45-85 years...

Objective Determine the 3-year incidence of visual impairment (VI) in Canada and its risk factors. Design Prospective 3-year cohort study Participants Data from 23 973 adults taking part in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Comprehensive Cohort baseline and 3-year follow-up exams were included. Methods Inclusion criteria were 45 to 85 yea...

Purpose: To systematically review the characteristics of patients with endogenous tuberculous (TB) endophthalmitis and panophthalmitis in an effort to help clinicians with diagnosis and treatment. Patients and methods: We conducted a systematic literature search in MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE and Web of Science from inception to August 2020. Referenc...

Purpose: Our goal was to explore the longitudinal association between vision-related variables and incident depressive symptoms in a community-dwelling sample of older adults and to examine whether sex, education, or hearing loss act as effect modifiers. Methods: A 3-year prospective cohort study was performed using data from the Canadian Longit...

Endophthalmitis is a severe presentation of intraocular tuberculosis that progresses rapidly and that can lead to intraocular tissue destruction as well as globe perforation when the cornea or the sclera are involved (panophthalmitis). Given the scarcity of literature on the topic, we performed a systematic review to evaluate patient characteristic...

Objective We investigated whether postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) use interacts with diabetes, a risk factor for several age-related eye diseases.Methods A cross-sectional analysis was performed of women involved in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The random sample comprised of 15,320 community-dwelling women between ages 45 and 85 ye...

In this manuscript, we report the first case of confirmed Mycobacterium bovis endophthalmitis in the literature. The initial clinical picture was suspicious for acute retinal necrosis. Mycobacterium bovis was isolated from the patient’s vitreous after pars plana vitrectomy and identified using genomic deletion analysis of the RD-regions. Pulmonary...

Objective: To describe the demographics, clinical presentation, proportion of co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and treatment of patients with ocular syphilis seen at the ophthalmology department of 2 tertiary centres in Montreal, Canada. Design: Retrospective case series. Participants and methods: A total of 169 eyes of 11...

Objective: To estimate national and geography-based variations in blood pressure and burden of hypertension in Cameroon, generally called 'miniature Africa'. Methods: PubMed, Medline, EMBASE, CINHAL, Web of Science, Popline, Scopus and BDSP were searched through November 2018, for hypertension studies among Cameroonians aged at least 18 years. H...

Objective: To determine the use of home care services in those with and without visual impairment in Canada. Design: Population-based cross-sectional study. Participants: Participants came from the baseline examination of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Comprehensive Cohort. Inclusion criteria included age between 45 and 85 years, com...

Background: Interactions between vision and chronic conditions affecting other balance control systems have rarely been investigated. We hypothesized that visual acuity would be more strongly related to balance in older adults with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) or diabetes. Methods: Cross-sectional data of the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Agi...

Objectives To determine whether visual acuity is related to balance in older adults with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) or diabetes mellitus. Design Cross‐sectional analysis. Setting Canada. Participants Community‐dwelling adults aged 45 to 85 from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (N=30,097). Measurements Visual acuity was measured w...

Objective To provide the frequency and potential determinants of eye care utilization over the last 12 months among Canadians between the ages of 45 and 85 years old. Design Cross-sectional population-based study. Participants 30,097 people in the Comprehensive Cohort of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Methods Inclusion criteria includ...

Objective To determine the prevalence and determinants of visual impairment in Canada. Design Cross-sectional population-based study. Participants 30,097 people in the Comprehensive Cohort of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Methods Inclusion criteria included being between the ages of 45 and 85 years old, community-dwelling, and living...

Background In the past 15 years, a recrudescence of syphilis was observed in Canada, along with a surge in ocular syphilis cases. Without treatment, ocular syphilis can have serious consequences potentially leading to blindness. Our goal was to describe the demographics, clinical presentations, proportion of co-infection with HIV, treatments and vi...

Objective: To examine factors associated with visual impairment (VI) and eye care in the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS). Method: IMIAS data were analyzed ( N = 1,995 with ages 65-74). Outcomes were VI defined as presenting visual acuity worse than 6/18 in the better eye and eye care utilization assessed by annual visits to eye car...

Using a world-wide, population-based dataset, we sought to examine the relationship between visual difficulty and employment status. The World Health Survey was conducted in 70 countries throughout the world in 2003 using a random, multi-stage, stratified, cluster sampling design. Far vision was assessed by asking about the level of difficulty in s...

Using a world-wide, population-based dataset of adults, we sought to determine the frequency of far visual difficulty and its associated risk factors. The World Health Survey (WHS) was conducted in 70 countries throughout the world in 2003 using a random, multi-stage, stratified, cluster sampling design of adults ages 18 years and older. Far vision...

The risk of visual impairment increases dramatically with age and therefore older adults should have their eyes examined at least every 1 to 2 years. Using a world-wide, population-based dataset, we sought to determine the frequency that older people had their eyes examined. We also examined factors associated with having a recent eye exam. The Wor...

To determine the prevalence and risk factors for near and far visual difficulty in Burkina Faso. Population-based data were used from the World Health Survey done in Burkina Faso in 2002-2003;2003 (n=4,822 adults). Near and far visual difficulty were assessed by questions about difficulty seeing and recognizing an object at arm's length and about d...

A cataract efficiency program was implemented in Montreal in 2003 to decrease surgery wait time. Our goal was to determine whether health, adverse events during wait time, and outcome of patients presenting for cataract surgery differed from 1999 to 2006 in Montreal. Prospective preoperative and postoperative observational study performed at 2 time...

As provinces consider what an acceptable cataract surgery wait time should be, research is needed on the risk of adverse events, such as depression, while waiting for care. We sought to determine whether worse visual acuity is related to depressive symptoms in patients waiting to have cataract surgery. Cohort study. Six hundred seventy-two patients...

Although corneal graft is a common, long-standing procedure, little is known about its economic impact. The purpose of this study was to estimate resource use and costs associated with corneal transplantation according to a public third-party perspective. Retrospective study using claim data from the Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ). A...

Primary melanoma of the sella turcica is very unusual with only four previous cases reported in the medical literature. This report describes a 47-year-old man whose headaches, endocrine dysfunction and neuro-imaging suggested a haemorrhagic pituitary macroadenoma. The histological examination showed a haemorrhagic melanoma. An extensive search for...