The average price of a domestic stent is around 8,000 yuan, while imported stents are generally more than 30 percent more expensive, and the most expensive therapeutic drug stents or radioactive stents can cost up to 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
In the mid to late 1980s, cardiac interventional stenting began to enter China. At that time, all the stents were imported, and the unit price was 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
In 1999, China's self-developed cardiac stents were successfully marketed, and the price was reduced to about 10,000 yuan, breaking the monopoly of imports in one fell swoop.
However, there are still very few domestic products among the cerebrovascular stents used in the clinic. Among them, carotid stents mainly rely on imports, and intracranial artery stents have only one domestic brand.
Data from China's General Administration of Customs showed that in 2016, China's imports of vascular stents totaled 472,878,800 U.S. dollars. In the field of coronary stents, the market share of imported stents is around 34%.
The proportion of domestically produced stents in use is increasing, and the market share has reached 60%, especially in cardiac interventions, where about 80% of cardiac stents are domestically produced. However, the market for supporting medical devices such as catheters and guide wires is still monopolized by foreign brands.
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