title: A modified hand injector for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
abstract: This paper introduces a modified hand injector for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). The new hand injector allows powerful injections to be performed through No. 8 or 9 French guiding catheters with little strain on the operator's hands. This device may reduce the time and cost of the procedure and would be useful in laboratories performing a high volume of PTCAs.
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans