diagnostic or therapeutic management of diseases and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
Medtronic is the predominant player in the energy-based therapies market. With global sales of nearly $4.9 billion attributable to energy-based products, it controls over half of the cardiac rhythm market and almost a quarter of all energy-based product sales. Boston Scientific, also focusing on cardiac arrhythmias, comes next in the revenues table with a [...]
High strength glues and surgical sealants, with worldwide market growth rates at, respectively, about 14% and 18%, represent the highest growth segments in the worldwide wound management market, otherwise comprised of sutures/stapes, tapes, hemostasis and anti-adhesion products.
Below is the geographic segmentation of the worldwide market for these products, dominated by the U.S. and Europe. However, [...]
Products for closing and sealing traumatic and surgical wounds, inducing hemostasis, and preventing post-surgical adhesions represent a rapidly growing market with growth in clinical applications, companies and market introductions.
MedMarket Diligence has published its 2009 report on "Worldwide Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion Markets, 2009-2013." The report is described here.
The market for surgical closure [...]
The list of companies profiled in the forthcoming MedMarket Diligence report #S175 on Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion has been expanded based on the additional company data gathered from the worldwide analysis. The list now stands at 136 companies. See below:
4.1 3DM, Inc. (3D-Matrix, Ltd.)
4.2 3M
4.3 [...]
From Report #S825, "Worldwide Market for the Clinical Management of Obesity, 2007-2015."
With a significant increase in obesity within developed countries, many researchers and product developers are working hard to develop new therapies. Surgical devices utilized to treat obesity have proven particularly useful and in some cases, have even outperformed nonsurgical therapies.
Obesity represents one of the [...]
Obesity puts a burden on so many aspects of life that the socioeconomic cost is almost inevitably enormous—as well as very difficult to accurately pin down. At the individual level, there is the lower quality of life, days missed from work, decreased wages, premature retirement, potentially unemployment, and the medical costs of related illnesses, which [...]
The global market for bariatric surgery devices grew at an average of about 34% for 2004-2007, and is expected to continue to grow at a strong rate. Revenues are forecast to reach about $1.5 billion by 2015, with a compound annual growth rate of just over 28%. The unit growth rate is expected to be [...]
A cursory review of data in the recent MedMarket Dilgence report #A125 reveals the countries with the highest expected growth rates in markets for ablation technologies.
Based on the growth in the ablation modality segments (e.g., radiofrequency, microwave, cryosurgery, thermal, ultrasound, etc.) that comprise each country’s total ablation market, the countries with the highest ablation market [...]