Fluoroscopic balloon diameter measurement at different pressures during Eustachian balloon dilation.
Byung Chul KangWoo Seok KangJun Woo ParkJung-Hoon ParkKun Yung KimHo-Young SongHong Ju ParkPublished in: Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery (2018)
The distal diameter of the balloon increased significantly as a function of the pressure and most (88%) inflation occurred at a low pressure of 5 atm, which was sufficient to inflate the distal diameter of the balloon more than 3 mm. The manual pressurisation could inflate a balloon by as much as could be expected, at between 3 and 5 atm.