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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	C23.550.767
Concept/Terms	Postoperative Complications Postoperative Complications Complication, Postoperative Complications, Postoperative Postoperative Complication

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Diseases [C]
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms [C23]
Pathologic Processes [C23.550]
Postoperative Complications [C23.550.767]

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Bar chart showing 228 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 24 publications in 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	2	3
2002	1	1	2
2005	3	2	5
2006	3	2	5
2007	5	1	6
2008	1	4	5
2009	2	10	12
2010	1	3	4
2011	6	3	9
2012	8	5	13
2013	5	8	13
2014	5	5	10
2015	13	11	24
2016	10	7	17
2017	13	6	19
2018	7	8	15
2019	9	6	15
2020	6	5	11
2021	4	3	7
2022	1	1	2
2023	0	9	9
2024	6	6	12
2025	6	3	9

Below are the most recent publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in Profiles.

McNamara PJ, Chock VY, Rahde-Bischoff A, Gabrio J, Johnson KJ, Harmon HM, Montoya-Williams D, Colaizy TT, Katheria AC, Ines F, Sorrells K, Battersby C, Levy PT, Rysavy MA, Bhombal S, Laughon MM, Carper B, Hintz SR, Das A, Bell EF. Evaluating the efficacy and safety of milrinone for prevention of post-patent ductus arteriosus closure syndrome (the MIDAS trial) in extremely preterm infants: a multicentre, double-masked, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2025 Aug 26; 15(8):e105018.

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Harris J, Zeineddin A, Li S, Carmona J, Chu QD, Fullum TM, Cornwell EE, Williams M. Effects of socioeconomics on biliary disease in patients with sickle cell. Am J Surg. 2025 Oct; 248:116524.

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Zeineddin A, Harris J, Olivencia-Delgado M, Carmona-Tamayo J, Fullum TM, Cornwell EE, Williams M. A 20-Year Analysis of Risk Factors for Complicated Postoperative Course Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Am Surg. 2025 Aug; 91(8):1258-1262.

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Woods AL, Li Y, Keegan TH, Nu?o M, Graves CE, Campbell MJ. Hypoparathyroidism After Total Thyroidectomy: A Population-Based Analysis of California Databases. J Surg Res. 2025 Jun; 310:268-274.

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Ishiyama Y, Hirano Y, Sasaki M, Akuta S, Yoshizawa M, Yamato M, Nakanishi A, Minagawa Y, Hayashi H, Fujii T, Okazaki N, Ishii T, Hiranuma C. End-to-end Anastomosis With ECHELON ENDOPATH? Staple Line Reinforcement for Right-sided Colon Cancer: Safety and Feasibility. In Vivo. 2025 May-Jun; 39(3):1573-1579.

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Matsui K, Sakuramoto S, Furube T, Yoshizawa M, Toriumi T, Ebara G, Miyawaki Y, Sato H. Clinical benefits including the postoperative inflammatory status of robot-assisted distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer compared with laparoscopic distal gastrectomy in patients with obesity. J Robot Surg. 2025 Apr 10; 19(1):143.

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Reddy RK, Schumacher KR, Ghanayem NS, Zhang W, Mikesell K, Alten JA, Bailly DK, Bertrandt RA, Blinder JJ, Buckley JR, Chan T, Chanani NK, DeWitt AG, Diddle JW, Gauntt J, Harmon WG, Jacobs JP, Kelly RB, Lin JI, Lion RP, Raymond TT, Riley CM, Schwartz SM, Shin AY, Simsic JM, Sinha A, Smith AH, Tabbutt S, Werho DK, Zaccagni HJ, Costello JM. Unplanned reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery and hospital mortality: A report from the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4). J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 Nov; 170(5):1234-1241.e8.

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Shannon EM, Blegen MB, Orav EJ, Li R, Norris KC, Maggard-Gibbons M, Dimick JB, de Virgilio C, Zingmond D, Alberti P, Tsugawa Y. Patient-surgeon racial and ethnic concordance and outcomes of older adults operated on by California licensed surgeons: an observational study. BMJ Open. 2025 Mar 03; 15(3):e089900.

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Lee PM, Harvey C, Snyder E, Singh S, Desai K, Tabak B, Johnson S, Puapong D, Woo R. The Disproportionate Increase in Pediatric Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Surg Res. 2025 Mar; 307:93-99.

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Fujii T, Hirano Y, Ishiyama Y, Yamato M, Akuta S, Yoshizawa M, Okazaki N, Hiranuma C. Comparison of short- and mid-term outcomes between the Senhance digital laparoscopic system and laparoscopic colectomy: a propensity score matching study. Surg Endosc. 2025 02; 39(2):1153-1159.

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