Patients dying as a result of postoperative complications (within 30 days) were excluded from the survival analysis.

It had gone well, and there was no reason to think there would be postoperative complications.

Any condition that probably increases the risk of intraoperative or postoperative complications:

His family said he had been stricken with appendicitis and died of postoperative complications.

This is a major procedure with lots of postoperative complications.

The cause was postoperative complications related to lung cancer, his family said.

But it is major surgery, with all the attendant risks of medical errors, infection and postoperative complications.

There are several risk factors associated with postoperative complications, such as immune deficienty and obesity.

The anesthesia team should be aware that patients may have postoperative pulmonary complications as part of the syndrome.

Postoperative mortality was 15%, and postoperative complications occurred in 44% of patients.