Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
We will now begin the question and answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Shawn Fitz with Stephens Inc. Please go ahead.
Shawn Fitz
Hi Fred and Kent good afternoon. Congratulations on a good quarter in a tough environment.
Fred Lampropoulos
Thanks Shawn.
Shawn Fitz
Hey just as we dig a little bit and teeth to the revenue segments. Fred and Kent, can provided us some details in terms of some of your kit business?
Fred Lampropoulos
I guess as I look at some of the other revenue segments, in particular catheter’s was very strong.
Shawn Fitz
Could you provide us with more insight into what was driving that in terms of dynamics in the marketplace, or specific with what you are doing there?
Fred Lampropoulos
Yes, go ahead Kent, I will let you in this.
Kent Stanger
Yes, I mean we have had a lot of growth in there. Some of those focus products Fred was referring to in that area, so you see growth in trailers and energies, you see it in the impress versus a radiology catheter, drainage catheters are really growing in high percentage right. Many of these are newer products so they caught out during the introductory phase of their life cycles but -- so you see both product introductions and focus of the sales force driving that as well as the opportunities for new markets that we are entering into and some more of the new products we introduced this quarter going there. Fred do you want to talk more on those
Fred Lampropoulos
Yes, Shawn let me just kind of go into this for the sheet business because this is an interesting one. One of the things that Merit has done over the last couple of quarters is introduced a radio lottery sheet and market sheet and a radio lottery sheet is a product that is used for a patients which makes them more ambulatory, lower time with smaller catheters and we get two to four times the price for that product that we do for a standard sheet. That is particularly being felt over in Europe where they do much more, in terms of procedures than we do here in the United States. But it is a growing trend that I think that we will see here in the U.S. So that is part of what’s driving it. The Marker tip, the MAK NV is in this group as well and all of the access products, the MAK products and all of these things, so this is an area that you are going to continue, see grow very dramatically in fact even though this one I think for the quarter was at 26.8% for the quarter and for the year. I think we are still above 19. It’s going to probably approach someplace even on a higher number, closer to 30% growth.
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