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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| 1995 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1996 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1998 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1999 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2004 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 2008 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2010 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2011 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 2012 | 9 | 18 | 27 |
| 2013 | 12 | 14 | 26 |
| 2014 | 14 | 13 | 27 |
| 2015 | 18 | 13 | 31 |
| 2016 | 27 | 12 | 39 |
| 2017 | 31 | 21 | 52 |
| 2018 | 18 | 22 | 40 |
| 2019 | 21 | 17 | 38 |
| 2020 | 21 | 11 | 32 |
| 2021 | 12 | 16 | 28 |
| 2022 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in Profiles.
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Long-term perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis after urethral reconstruction does not improve clinical outcomes and increases incidence of MDR organisms. World J Urol. 2024 Nov 26; 42(1):648.
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Longitudinal Experience Using Pedicled Buccal Fat Pad Flaps in Cleft Palatoplasty: Mitigating Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Risk and Severity. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024 Dec 01; 154(6):1209e-1219e.
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Impact of moderate or severe mitral and tricuspid valves regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Am Heart J. 2025 Feb; 280:79-88.
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Effects of Social Determinants of Health and Social Support on Surgical Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Hysterectomy. Obstet Gynecol. 2025 Jan 01; 145(1):115-123.
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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Cardiogenic Shock And Heart Failure. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2024 Sep; 34(9):829-835.
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Association of Previous Cardiac Surgery With Postoperative Pneumonia in Infants Undergoing Abdominal Operations: A Cohort Study. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Nov; 59(11):161676.
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Management of Chyle Leak in Pediatric Surgical Oncology: A Systematic Review. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2024 Oct 01; 46(7):e481-e486.
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Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement following endoscopic third ventriculostomy failure in the treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2024 Aug 01; 34(2):176-181.
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Preoperative risk prediction models for acute kidney injury after noncardiac surgery: are all models wrong, or can some be recalibrated and become useful? Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024;133: 508-518. Br J Anaesth. 2024 Sep; 133(3):658-659.
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An institutional experience in applying quality improvement measures to pituitary surgery: clinical and resource implications. Neurosurg Focus. 2023 Dec; 55(6):E10.