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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| 1996 | 14 | 13 | 27 |
| 1997 | 13 | 11 | 24 |
| 1998 | 14 | 13 | 27 |
| 1999 | 16 | 16 | 32 |
| 2000 | 15 | 22 | 37 |
| 2001 | 8 | 18 | 26 |
| 2002 | 26 | 18 | 44 |
| 2003 | 13 | 15 | 28 |
| 2004 | 21 | 17 | 38 |
| 2005 | 9 | 19 | 28 |
| 2006 | 24 | 19 | 43 |
| 2007 | 18 | 29 | 47 |
| 2008 | 19 | 33 | 52 |
| 2009 | 17 | 29 | 46 |
| 2010 | 24 | 26 | 50 |
| 2011 | 26 | 37 | 63 |
| 2012 | 37 | 33 | 70 |
| 2013 | 37 | 26 | 63 |
| 2014 | 58 | 28 | 86 |
| 2015 | 72 | 40 | 112 |
| 2016 | 68 | 42 | 110 |
| 2017 | 52 | 42 | 94 |
| 2018 | 60 | 44 | 104 |
| 2019 | 61 | 42 | 103 |
| 2020 | 59 | 47 | 106 |
| 2021 | 23 | 40 | 63 |
| 2022 | 6 | 52 | 58 |
| 2023 | 5 | 36 | 41 |
| 2024 | 41 | 49 | 90 |
| 2025 | 35 | 15 | 50 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in Profiles.
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Adverse Outcomes in Patients With Hypothyroidism Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Study Using TriNetX. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2026 Feb 20; 111(3):e766-e777.
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Clinical Implementation of Inspiratory-Expiratory Chest CT: Defining Quality Criteria for Diagnostic Quality and Detection of Concurrent FEV1 Decline following Lung Transplantation. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2025 Oct; 7(5):e240468.
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Bloodless heart transplantation in patients who refuse transfusion: An 11-year case series. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2026 Jan; 171(1):241-250.
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Persistent Neurosensory Disturbance Following Sagittal Split Osteotomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of One-Year Outcomes and Risk Factors. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2026 Jan; 84(1):25-44.
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Passenger Lymphocyte Syndrome Presenting With Severe Refractory Thrombocytopenia After Transplantation: A Multi-Recipient Case Series. Clin Transplant. 2025 Sep; 39(9):e70295.
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Complications of growth-friendly techniques in early onset scoliosis of neurofibromatosis type 1: a case series. Childs Nerv Syst. 2025 Aug 27; 41(1):268.
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AASLD AST Practice Guideline on adult liver transplantation: Diagnosis and management of graft-related complications. Liver Transpl. 2026 Mar 01; 32(3):444-490.
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Long-term outcomes of endovascular aneurysm repair in standard versus narrow aortic bifurcation. J Vasc Surg. 2026 Feb; 83(2):422-429.
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Postoperative outcomes and complications after corpectomy for vertebral osteomyelitis: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Neurosci. 2025 Nov; 141:111565.
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Development and validation of the APEX-HBD SCORe: a multivariable prediction model for postoperative complications in patients undergoing shoulder arthroplasty. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2026 Mar; 35(3):e467-e478.