Abbott Receives FDA Approval for Triclip?, First-Of-Its-Kind Device to Repair Leaky Tricuspid Heart Valve

Abbott Laboratories specializes in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical and medical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - diagnostic systems and instruments (39.1%); - vascular devices (24.7%): endoprosthetic systems, dilation catheters, arterial closures, etc.; - nutrition products (12.1%): pediatric nutrition products, nutritional supplements, and dietetic products; - medicine (8.2%): anesthetics, antiviral products, antibiotics, inhibitors, anti-inflammatories, etc.; - other (15.9%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (38.5%), Germany (5.8%), China (5.6%), India (4.4%), Switzerland (4.1%), Japan (3.8%), Netherlands (2.7%) and others (35.1%).