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 | 8 | 10 | 18 |
| 1997 | 7 | 20 | 27 |
| 1998 | 6 | 16 | 22 |
| 1999 | 4 | 16 | 20 |
| 2000 | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| 2001 | 7 | 17 | 24 |
| 2002 | 14 | 16 | 30 |
| 2003 | 17 | 18 | 35 |
| 2004 | 19 | 22 | 41 |
| 2005 | 26 | 27 | 53 |
| 2006 | 21 | 19 | 40 |
| 2007 | 13 | 17 | 30 |
| 2008 | 19 | 36 | 55 |
| 2009 | 14 | 27 | 41 |
| 2010 | 18 | 13 | 31 |
| 2011 | 25 | 40 | 65 |
| 2012 | 41 | 36 | 77 |
| 2013 | 38 | 37 | 75 |
| 2014 | 50 | 38 | 88 |
| 2015 | 68 | 46 | 114 |
| 2016 | 56 | 58 | 114 |
| 2017 | 84 | 43 | 127 |
| 2018 | 75 | 70 | 145 |
| 2019 | 74 | 53 | 127 |
| 2020 | 61 | 69 | 130 |
| 2021 | 50 | 55 | 105 |
| 2022 | 2 | 58 | 60 |
| 2023 | 9 | 47 | 56 |
| 2024 | 30 | 76 | 106 |
| 2025 | 68 | 38 | 106 |
| 2026 | 37 | 18 | 55 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in Profiles.
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Central Nervous System Infections in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Pediatr Transplant. 2026 Aug; 30(8):e70432.
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Long-Term Outcomes of Renal Transplant Allografts With De Novo DSA in the Setting of Stable Function. Clin Transplant. 2026 May; 40(5):e70576.
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Adenovirus Disease Following Pediatric Liver Transplantation: 10-Year Experience From a Large Pediatric Transplant Program. Pediatr Transplant. 2026 Mar; 30(3):e70298.
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Liberal or Restrictive Postoperative Transfusion in Patients at High Cardiac Risk: The TOP Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2025 12 23; 334(24):2197-2207.
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Severe Flash Pulmonary Edema Following Rituximab and Daratumumab Infusion for Post-Transplant Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Pediatr Transplant. 2025 12; 29(8):e70230.
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Pediatric Lung Transplant Recipient. Pediatr Transplant. 2025 12; 29(8):e70232.
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Exploring Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Outcomes Following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A NEPHRON Study Analysis. Pediatr Cardiol. 2026 Oct; 47(7):2944-2952.
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Atrial fibroblast-derived macrophage migration inhibitory factor promotes atrial macrophage accumulation in postoperative atrial fibrillation. JCI Insight. 2025 09 23; 10(18).
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Thirty years of left atrioventricular valve reoperations following atrioventricular septal defect repair: Impact of valvar stenosis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 11; 170(5):1216-1224.e1.
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Distensibility index measured after Toupet fundoplication is associated with long-term dysphagia. Surg Endosc. 2025 Jul; 39(7):4455-4462.