Commentary Open Access
Volume 4 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/anesthesia.4.018
Commentary on ‘Late presentation of right coronary artery stent infection as left empyema and pleuro-pericardial fistula’
Kishore Gupta, DNB CTVS1,*, Dhaval Naik, DNB CTVS1
- 1Commentary on ‘Late presentation of right coronary artery stent infection as left empyema and pleuro-pericardial fistula’
Corresponding Author
Kishore Gupta, dr_kishore24@yahoo.com
Received Date: January 16, 2024
Accepted Date: February 14, 2024
Gupta K, Naik D. Commentary on ‘Late presentation of right coronary artery stent infection as left empyema and pleuro-pericardial fistula’. J Clin Anesth Intensive Care. 2024;4(1):1-5.
Copyright: © 2024 Gupta K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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