Postoperative Complications
"Postoperative Complications" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
| Descriptor ID |
D011183
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.767
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| Concept/Terms |
Postoperative Complications- Postoperative Complications
- Complication, Postoperative
- Complications, Postoperative
- Postoperative Complication
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in this website by year, and whether "Postoperative Complications" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in Profiles.
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Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Prevention After Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: Real World Evidence From a Large Integrated Healthcare System. J Surg Oncol. 2026 Aug; 134(2):248-256.
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Vaccination is associated with reduced mortality rates after surgery for hip fractures in the setting of recent COVID-19 infection: an observational study from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Database. Acta Orthop. 2026 May 08; 97:286-293.
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Risk of perioperative mortality and venous thromboembolism after total hip or knee arthroplasty with recent COVID-19 infection: an observational study from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Database. Acta Orthop. 2025 Sep 17; 96:692-697.
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Development and validation of an EHR-based risk prediction model for geriatric patients undergoing urgent and emergency surgery. BMC Anesthesiol. 2025 Jan 27; 25(1):33.
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Thrombocytopenia is Associated with Higher Fontan Pressure and Increased Morbidity in Patients with Fontan Circulation. Pediatr Cardiol. 2025 Aug; 46(6):1537-1543.
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Bariatric Surgery and the Long-Term Risk of Venous Thromboembolism: A Population-Based Cohort Study. Obes Surg. 2024 Jun; 34(6):2017-2025.
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Limitations to Health Care Quality Measurement: Assessing Hospital Variation in Risk of Cardiac Events After Noncardiac Surgery. Popul Health Manag. 2022 12; 25(6):712-720.
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Developing the American College of Surgeons Quality Improvement Framework to Evaluate Local Surgical Improvement Efforts. JAMA Surg. 2022 08 01; 157(8):737-739.
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The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Long-term Depression Treatment in Patients With Obesity. Ann Surg. 2022 08 01; 276(2):318-323.
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A refined procedure for esophageal resection using a full minimally invasive approach. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2022 Mar 04; 17(1):29.