Mr Haider Kareem Consultant spinal neurosurgeon
- Patient age group
- Adults
- Consultant registered on
- 01/06/2010
- Primary medical qualifications
- MB ChB
- Foreign languages
- Gender
- Male
- Services
- Hospitals
Contact
- Phone
- 020 3312 6889
Suad Yusef
Background
Mr Haider Kareem qualified in medicine from the Basra Medical College, Iraq, in 1997. He has trained in both Iraq and the United Kingdom. In the last decade, Mr Kareem has been working at the Major Trauma Centre, St Mary’s Hospital and Elective Neurosurgical Centre, Charing Cross Hospital. Mr Kareem is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, European Board of Neurological Surgery and Iraqi Board of Medical Specialties.
Expertise
Spinal surgery including minimally invasive surgeries, spinal injuries, tumours, infections, degenerative spinal conditions, traumatic brain injuries, hydrocephalus, cranioplasties, endoscopic brain surgery, spinal tumours , benign cranial tumours (meningiomas).
Research & publications
Recruiter for RCTs at St Mary’s Hospital Major Trauma Centre:
DISCUS Study, Principal Investigator of this study, Duroplasty for Injured Cervical Spinal Cord with Uncontrolled Swelling. DISCUS is an NIHR EME funded randomised controlled trial for acute, severe traumatic cervical spinal cord injury. DISCUS will assess if dural + bony decompression improves outcome compared with bony decompression alone (usual practice). DISCUS is a neurosurgery study in trauma setting.
Shujhat Khan, Giulio Anichini, Areeb Mian, Haider Kareem, Nelofer Syed, Kevin O'Neill. Tonsillar Carcinoma Spreading Metastases to Central Nervous System: Case Report and Literature Review. Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports, June 2021
Jacob Chen Ming Low, David Rowland, Haider Kareem. L1/2 Intradural Disc Herniation with Compression of the Proximal Cauda Equina Nerves: A Surgical Challenge. World Neurosurgery, August 2020.
Haider Kareem, Christian Ulbricht. A prospective long-term follow-up study of the PercuDyn System to treat back pain associated with degenerative disc disease. Global Spine Journal, May 2019.
Haider Kareem, Muhammad Hasan Raza, Vassilios Kontojannis, Amr Nimer, Kevin Tsang. Case series of posterior instrumentation for repair of burst lumbar vertebral body fractures with entrapped neural elements. Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS), June 2018.
Haider Kareem, Hadie Adams, entitled “A closed system irrigation & drainage technique for surgical evacuation of chronic subdural haematomas” a prospective cohort (case series), F1000 Research, May 2018.
Haider Kareem, Sabah Al-Rashed, Heinke Pülhorna “Resection of a large scalp neurofibroma using multiple overlapping string sutures to control vascularity” JPRAS Open, Volume 13, September 2017, Pages 11-16.
Vassilios Kontojannis, Isabel Charlotte Hostettler, Brogan RJ, Muhammad Hasan Raza,Abby Harper-Payne, Haider Kareem, Boutelle M, Mark Wilson. Detection of intracranial hematomas in the emergency department using near infrared spectroscopy.August 2019.
Isabel Charlotte Hostettler, Srinivas Murahari, Muhammad H., Raza Vassilios Kontojannis, Kevin Tsang, Haider Kareem, Brynmor Jones, Mark Wilson. Case report on the spontaneous resolution of a traumatic intracranial acute subdural haematoma: evaluation of the guidelines. Acta Neurochirurgica. April 2018.
Sabah Al-Rashed, Haider Kareem, Neeraj Kalra, Linda D’Antona, Mouness Obeidat, Bhavesh Patel, Ahmed Toma. Lumboperitoneal shunt insertion without fluoroscopy guidance: Accuracy of placement in a series of 107 procedures. F1000 Research, May 2017
Pülhorn H, Kareem H, Ulbricht C. Intradural migration of cervical posterior fixation rods. Euro Spine J. 2015
Vashu R, Kareem H, Ansari S. Vertex extradural Haemorrhage: A brief review in modern neurosurgery, Acta Neurochirurgica: volume 155, Issue5 (2013), page 923-924.