Fresenius Medical Care AG
Fresenius Medical Care AG provides dialysis and related services for individuals with renal diseases in Germany, the United States, and internationally. The company offers dialysis treatment and related laboratory and diagnostic services through a network of outpatient dialysis clinics; materials, training, and patient support services comprising clinical monitoring, follow-up assistance, and arranging for delivery of the supplies to the patient's residence; and dialysis services under contract to hospitals in the United States for the hospitalized end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and for patients suffering from acute kidney failure. It also develops, manufactures, and distributes various health care products, including polysulfone dialyzers, hemodialysis machines, peritoneal dialysis cyclers, peritoneal dialysis solutions, hemodialysis concentrates, solutions and granulates, bloodlines, renal pharmaceuticals, systems for water treatment, and acute cardiopulmonary and apheresis products. In addition, the company develops, acquires, and in-licenses renal pharmaceuticals; offers renal medications and supplies to patients at homes or to dialysis clinics; and provides vascular, cardiovascular, endovascular specialty, vascular care ambulatory surgery center, physician nephrology, ambulant treatment, and other services. The company sells its products to dialysis clinics, hospitals, and specialized treatment clinics, as well as through local sales forces, independent distributors, dealers, and sales agents. Fresenius Medical Care AG was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany.
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LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices and implants used in the field of vascular surgery in the Americas, Europe, the Middle Esat, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers allografts, which are cryopreserved human tissue grafts used in vascular reconstruction, and cardiac repair and reconstruction; embolectomy catheters to remove blood clots from arteries; thrombectomy catheters for removing thrombi in the venous system; occlusion catheters that temporarily occlude blood flow; and perfusion catheters to perfuse the blood and other fluids into the vasculature, as well as human cadaver tissue cryopreservation services. It also provides a suite of biologic products comprising artegraft biologic graft, a bovine carotid artery used for dialysis access; XenoSure biologic patches used for vessel closure after surgical intervention; VascuCel and CardioCel biologic patches, used in vessel repair, heart repair and reconstruction, and neonatal repairs; cardiovascular and porcine patches; carotid shunts that temporarily shunt the blood to the brain; biosynthetic vascular grafts indicated for lower extremity bypass and dialysis access; phlebectomy system for resection and ablation of varicose veins; LifeSpan vascular grafts, which are expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts; and vascular grafts used to bypass or replace diseased arteries. In addition, the company offers radiopaque tape, a medical-grade tape; valvulotomes, which cut or disrupt valves in the saphenous vein to function as an artery to carry blood past diseased arteries to the lower leg or the foot; and closure systems to attach vessels to one another with titanium clips instead of sutures. It markets its products through a direct sales force and distributors. The company was formerly known as Vascutech, Inc. and changed its name to LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. in April 2001. LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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