She died from surgical complications on December 26, 2008 at age 78 years old.
Few people knew that she was struggling with the September 2002 death of her father from surgical complications.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died from surgical complications.
One patient did fine for 10 months but then lost his kidney because of a surgical complication.
And half of major surgical complications are avoidable with existing knowledge.
He had surgery after retirement to repair the wound, and died from surgical complications.
This is meant to protect against the possibility that surgical complications could cause the loss of whatever residual hearing they have.
She also wrote about the surgical complications of operating on patients with diabetes.
Minor surgical complications occur less than 10% of the time.
Older people, especially those with other long-term health problems, are at increased risk for surgical complications.