The trend in the development of coronary stents and their associated market segments is for price pressure but continued sales growth in drug-eluting stents, persistent utilization of bare metal stents driven by their lower prices and the emergence within a few years of bioabsorbable/biodegradable stents, which will raise the bar on stent performance, even compared to drug-eluting stents.
The growth versue market size bubbles for unit volume sales of the three stent types in 2014 are shown below.

Source: MedMarket Diligence, LLC; Report #C245, "Worldwide Market for Drug-Eluting, Bare Metal and Other Coronary Stents, 2008-2017."
Coronary stent unit volume size, growth, by stent type











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