Vascular Solutions takes thrombus tech to Japan
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Vascular Solutions is to start selling in Japan its Pronto catheter, a device that uses mechanical aspiration to remove acute thrombus from the arterial system. The Minneapolis, Minnesota firm said it had received notification from its Japanese distributor Nihon Kohden that the import licence and reimbursement notification for the product's sale in Japan had been completed. "After the US...Japan is the second largest market for thrombus aspiration catheters," said Howard Root, Vascular Solutions' CEO. "Removal of acute thrombus is a potential $100m annual worldwide market opportunity that we are only beginning to realise with the Pronto as it enters its second year of commercial launch and expanding worldwide markets." Clinica FILED 1 June 2005 COPYRIGHT T&F Informa UK Ltd 2005