European Markets for Peripheral Vascular Devices

Abstract

In 2006, the European market for peripheral vascular devices was valued at over €616 million, an increase of 5.7% over 2005, as depicted in Chart 1-1. This value represents the market for stents, PTA balloons, embolic protection devices, vena cava filters, stent grafts, surgical grafts, interventional catheters and guidewires, introducer sheaths, diagnostic catheters and guidewires, and vascular closure devices. The European market encompasses Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom (U.K.), Spain, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg), Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway), Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, and Poland.