postoperative

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Older patients or people with certain health conditions can experience neurocognitive issues after anesthesia, including memory or concentration problems, or postoperative delirium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

They added, "Preoperative vitamin D supplementation in breast cancer patients with vitamin D levels below 30 nmol/L may have a role in modulating postoperative pain."

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Elutia sells small materials that protect cardiac patients from postoperative complications, such as infection.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

That was called postoperative depression, and it was normal, they assured her.

From Slate • May 2, 2025

He could come through other people’s tonsilectomies without suffering any postoperative distress, and even endure their hernias and hemorrhoids with only mild nausea and revulsion.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller