Japan's pacemaker market emerges from doldrums in 1994
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Japan's implantable cardiac pacemaker market recovered strongly from the bribery scandals which beset it in the early 1990s to grow 12.8% in 1994. On an end user price basis, (equivalent to health insurance reimbursement prices) sales were ¥3,450 million ($510 million). On a unit basis, growth was 10.3%, says a market report in Japan Medical Review.