Karen Milford

ORCID: 0000-0003-4539-8756
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Research Areas
  • Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
  • Urological Disorders and Treatments
  • Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
  • Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Testicular diseases and treatments
  • Ureteral procedures and complications
  • Pelvic floor disorders treatments
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
  • Urinary Tract Infections Management
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Abdominal Surgery and Complications
  • Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
  • Vascular anomalies and interventions
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Renal and related cancers
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
  • Amoebic Infections and Treatments
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Foreign Body Medical Cases

Dalhousie University
2025

Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre
2025

SickKids Foundation
2020-2023

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
2023

Hospital for Sick Children
2020-2022

Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
2022

University of Toronto
2020-2022

University of the Witwatersrand
2022

Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
2016-2018

University of Cape Town
2016-2018

Urethral catheterization is an important skill to develop as consultations for "difficult catheterization" are common in practice. Developing a broad approach difficult urethral crucial improve trainee success rates. Strategies and techniques often passed down shared between trainees without formal documentation or dissemination of techniques. Herein, we present framework based on clinical history patient examination, while also providing additional troubleshooting overcome challenges with...

10.32604/cju.2025.064697 article EN 2025-01-01

Objective To compare the outcomes of pre‐ vs postnatally diagnosed posterior urethral valves (PUV) at two large paediatric centres in North America to ascertain if prenatal diagnosis PUV is associated with better outcomes. Patients and Methods All boys were identified institutions between 2000 2020 (The Hospital for Sick Children [SickKids, SK] Children’s Philadelphia [CHOP]). Baseline characteristics outcome measures compared those postnatally. Main interest included progression chronic...

10.1111/bju.15708 article EN BJU International 2022-02-10
Mostafa Shalaby Ahmed M. ElSheikh Hosam Hamed Ahmed Elsheik Ahmad Sakr and 95 more Amgad Fouad Amr Kassem Hossam Elfeki Khaled Madbouly Khalid Alzahrani Khalid Marzouk Mahmoud Fadl Ali Mohamed A. Helal Mohamed Elsorogy Mohamed Farid Nicola Di Lorenzo Pierpaolo Sileri Steven D. Wexner Wael Khafagy Ademola Adeyeye Alaa El‐Hussuna Alice Frontali Avanish Saklani Benedettao Lelpo Daniela Molena Diwakar Pandey Elena Karbovnichaya Francesco Pata Gabrielle H. Van Ramshor Gaetano Gallo Gaya Spolverato Gianluca Pellino Giulia Bagaglini Inés Rubio-Pérez Ionuţ Negoi Isabella Frigerio Jovan Juloski Marijana Ninkovic Marzia Franceschilli Mina Azer Sergey Efetov Simona Ippoliti Zoe Garoufalia Mohammad Rafi Fazli Agron Dogjani Harieche Abdennour Abderahim Cherfa Tilioua Omar Javier Minoldo José María Álvarez Gallesio Matias Quesada Annica Bacher Stephan Kropshofer Florian Ponholzer Philip Tesik Philipp Gehwolf Sevim Isci Stefan Uranitsch Valeria Berchtold Elgun Samadov Abdulmenem Abualsel Ashrarur Rahman Mitul S. M. Nazmul Islam Aude Vanlander Charles Van Praet Elke Van Daele Hanne Vanommeslaeghe Jasper Stijns Kessewa Abosi-Appeadu Martijn Depuydt Mathias Allaeys Van Nieuwenhove Yves Ramiro Colleoni Mihail Slavchev Aly Elbahrawy Jessica G.Y. Luc Karen Milford Ivan Romić Alessio Monti Ashraf Haydal Mads Klein Miranda E. K. Ocklind Sabah Anwar Hadi Abdallah Alqasaby Abdelazim Elganash Adel Goda Hussein Daibes Adham Elsaied Ahmad Elhattab A. Ahmad Ahmed Alnashar Ahmed Abd Elbaset Elsayed Abu Elnour Ahmed Abdelhalim Ahmed Abdelhamid Ahmed A. H. Abdellatif Ahmed Abdelmohsen Ahmed Abdelrafee Ahmed Adel Elhawary Ahmed Zidan Ahmed Eleshra Ahmed Elkafoury Ahmed Ezz

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had many significant impacts within the surgical realm, and surgeons have been obligated to reconsider almost every aspect of daily clinical practice. This is a cross-sectional study reported in compliance with CHERRIES guidelines conducted through an online platform from June 14th July 15th, 2020. The primary outcome was burden burnout during indicated by validated Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure. Nine hundred fifty-four completed survey. median length practice 10...

10.1186/s40359-023-01517-4 article EN cc-by BMC Psychology 2024-01-25

Liver abscess is a global disease, although it occurs more commonly in areas with poor socioeconomic circumstances. The majority of liver abscesses are pyogenic nature, but amebiasis common cause where the parasite endemic and sanitation underdeveloped. This article reviews amebic special focus on role imaging both diagnosis management. epidemiology, pathology, clinical presentation also discussed.

10.1055/s-0037-1600114 article EN Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2017-03-21

Abstract Objectives Over the past decade, clinical practice guidelines and educational campaigns have counselled against use of routine ultrasound (US) in diagnosis undescended testes (UDT). We aimed to establish whether or not there has been change proportion children with UDT undergoing pre-referral US prior referral our centre over this period. also sought determine type referring specialist, diagnosis, patient distance from hospital had impacted rate US. Methods A select sample charts...

10.1093/pch/pxaa099 article EN Paediatrics & Child Health 2020-10-07

We describe two cases of missed battery ingestion that led to extensive morbidity, requiring surgical management would not have been necessary had the batteries removed timeously.

10.7196/samj.2016.v106i10.11172 article EN cc-by-nc South African Medical Journal 2016-09-23

You have accessJournal of UrologyPediatric Urology II (MP44)1 Sep 2021MP44-04 DEEP LEARNING BASED ALGORITHM ASSESSMENT OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES PREDICTS THE DEVELOPMENT RENAL FAILURE IN CHILDREN WITH POSTERIOR URETHRAL VALVES John Weaver, Karen Milford, Mandy Rickard, Zhicheng Jiao, Bernarda Viteri, Lauren Erdman, Marta Skreta, Daniel Keefe, Salima Shah, Antoine Selman Fermin, Dana Weiss, Christopher Long, Armando Lorenzo, Yong Fan, and Gregory Tasian WeaverJohn Weaver More articles by this...

10.1097/ju.0000000000002065.04 article EN The Journal of Urology 2021-08-04
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