NxStage Medical Reports Third Quarter 20...( LAWRENCE Mass. Nov. 2 /- NxStage ...),Health

LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), the manufacturer of the NxStage System One(TM) portable kidney dialysis machine, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Revenues for the third quarter of 2007 were $11.6 million, compared to $5.5 million in the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 111%. Revenues in the chronic home dialysis market were $8.3 million for the third quarter of 2007, compared to $3.6 million in the third quarter of 2006. Revenues in the critical care market for the third quarter of 2007 were $3.3 million, compared to $1.9 million in the third quarter of 2006. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007 revenue was $30.0 million, a 123% increase over revenue of $13.5 million for the first nine months of 2006.

At the end of the third quarter of 2007, NxStage was working with 306 dialysis centers to provide home hemodialysis therapy with its System One to 1,957 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. This compares to 265 centers and 1,615 patients at the end of the second quarter of 2007. NxStage also continued to expand use of the PureFlow SL to a broader customer base and at the end of the third quarter 2007, PureFlow penetration reached 65% of all System One machines in the chronic market. Expanding penetration of PureFlow among existing and new customers is an important element of NxStage's ongoing focus to improve margins.

"NxStage continues to validate the home hemodialysis opportunity and in the second quarter we demonstrated our ability to lead and grow this market," said Jeffrey H. Burbank, President & CEO of NxStage Medical. "Our recently completed acquisition of Medisystems mark
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