Fractional Flow Reserve: Measuring Pressures in the Marketplace

To this point, the FFR market has been a duopoly, split almost evenly between St. Jude Medical and Volcano Corporation. While these companies compete with each other, both have expressed upon occasion that the real challenge to increasing their sales and profits is not in gaining share from each other, but from expanding the field of FFR as a whole. However, some new smaller device companies are beginning to enter the marketplace. And the technology is slightly different: instead of pressure wires, these newer systems are utilizing fiber-optics.
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