Hemodialysis, also known as artificial kidney, is a type of blood purification technology, primarily applicable to the treatment of patients with rental failure.
In 2013, the global number of patients receiving dialysis continued to grow to 2.519 million. The new patients mainly come from Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan), whereas for Europe, America, Japan and other mature markets, since these countries have a higher proportion of patients with advanced renal failure receiving treatment, so they have a slower growth in the number of patients receiving dialysis. For example, in 2013, the number of patients receiving dialysis in Asia-Pacific region grew by 17.0% YoY; while in Japan, EU and US, the number of patients receiving dialysis grew by only 2%-4% YoY.
The global hemodialysis market can be divided into two parts: hemodialysis service and hemodialysis equipment, of which the scale of hemodialysis service market is larger, accounting for about 85% of the overall market.
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1 Hemodialysis Service Market
Global hemodialysis service market has great regional differences: in Europe and Asia Pacific, public institutions dominate, however, in North America, private-company-operated institutions and in Latin America, private clinics are the main forms. Currently, global companies providing hemodialysis service mainly include Fresenius Medical Care, DaVita, etc. The number of patients receiving hemodialysis in these two companies in 2013 came to nearly 340,000.
Dialysis services in China are mainly provided by all levels of hospitals, mainly due to that currently the national health insurance reimbursement ratio is relatively low and the affordability of patients is not high, resulting in lower proportion of patients with