Product Description
Hyaluronic acid viscosupplementation (HA) as a treatment for osteoarthritis has been available in Canada since the late 90s with the major international brands receiving regulatory approval from Health Canada in 1999 and 2000. Unlike many other HA markets around the world, Canada has never seen the five-injection market reaching scale, instead the three-injection market served as the first mainstream product for the HA treatment until 2003 when the first single-injection product became available. The three-injection market slowed and subsequently started to decline when other established brands also started marketing single-injection solutions in 2009. As of 2015 the market split between single and three-injection products continues to trend towards single-injection, albeit at a slower pace; single-injection market is currently occupying 57.5% of the total market with the three-injection market accounting for the balance, slightly up from 2012 when single-injection market accounted for 55% share. No device was strictly indicated as a five-injection course only; two brands (Hyalgan® and Ostenil®) are sold as individually packaged syringes and an immaterial number of their units were found to be used as five-injection solutions. For the purpose of this report, all estimated units for these two brands were accounted for under the three-injection category.
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The "Canadian Market Report for Orthopedic Biomaterials 2016 - MedSuite" includes analysis on the following companies currently active in this market:MedtronicSynthesWright MedicalCitagenixStrykerCanadian Local Tissue BanksRTI SurgicalZimmer BiometSanofiBioventusAnika TherapeuticsFerring PharmaAralez PharmaBioventusDJOIGEA MedicalFintek Bio-ElectricBTT MelmakITO CompanyOrthofixOthers include: Aptissen SA, Fidia Pharma, Mylan Institutional and TRB Chemedica.Others include: Baxter, Davol, LifeNet Health, MTF, Novabone, OrthoVita, Smith & Nephew, etc.*Not all companies are currently active in every segment or sub-report from this suite. For more details contact an iData Research Product Advisor.
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