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Abstract
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.
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Narrower headings
- Afferent Loop Syndrome
- Anastomotic Leak
- Breast Cancer Lymphedema
- Corneal Endothelial Cell Loss
- Coronary-Subclavian Steal Syndrome
- Delayed Emergence from Anesthesia
- Emergence Delirium
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Incisional Hernia
- Low Anterior Resection Syndrome
- Malignant Hyperthermia
- Postcholecystectomy Syndrome
- Postgastrectomy Syndromes
- Postoperative Cognitive Complications
- Postoperative Hemorrhage
- Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
- Postoperative Pain
- Postpericardiotomy Syndrome
- Prosthesis Failure
- Prosthesis-Related Infections
- Reperfusion Injury
- Short Bowel Syndrome
- Slit Ventricle Syndrome
- Surgical Shock
- Surgical Wound Dehiscence
- Surgical Wound Infection
- Vascular Graft Occlusion
- Vasoplegia
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Synonyms
3 entry terms
- Complication, Postoperative
- Complications, Postoperative
- Postoperative Complication
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33 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
coordinate with specific postoperative complication (if not treed under POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS) and specific surgical procedure if pertinent; effective 2017: for postoperative complications that are a direct result of the surgical procedure, coordinate with specific postoperative complication(if not treed under POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS) and specific surgical procedure /adv eff
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Postoperative Complications. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011183. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011183
- Postoperative Complications. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18478450