US Markets for Peripheral Stents Get AAA Rating
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
According to "US Markets for Peripheral Vascular Stents," a report recently published by the Medtech Insight division of Elsevier Business Intelligence, the peripheral vascular stent market yielded more than $1 billion in revenues in the US in 2009, and will continue to grow at an overall rate of 7.2% in coming years, with some product segments growing even faster. Stents for carotid arteries are expected to yield a 36.5% annual compound growth rate through 2014 and endovascular products for the repair of aortic aneurysms (AAA) will grow by 8.4%, according to the Medtech Insight report. AAA endografts accounted for 43.7% of peripheral vascular stent sales last year.
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