Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Amit Bhalla of Citi.
Amit Bhalla - Citigroup
Good morning. Emile, I appreciate your commentary that the non-treatment that is the biggest competitors in below the knee market. But, I was wondering if you can just take a step back and also comment on your thoughts on patient volumes in PAD in general, what are the trends you are seeing there? Is that market growing at that 600,000? And also talk to us a little bit about what you're so you think your current market share is in the below the knee market and how that has changed recently?
Emile Geisenheimer
Good morning Amit, good to talk to you. Good questions. There is obviously a lot of... a bit of controversy about the growth rate in the PAV market. And I think that controversy arises out of blending above the knee and below the knee.
As we see it approximately two thirds of the market is above... potential market is above the knee and about a third, below the knee. Our perception is that the market below the knee has been growing. While perhaps the market above the knee has been shrinking, and that we don't think that the above knee shrinking because of a lack of case volume. So much of it is the lack of effective treatment of alternatives above the knee.
So, this is why we're so focused on the TURBO-Booster upgraded product, because we believe it will address that market. And that combined with our six-month CELLO data, we'd hope to be the spark plug to continued growth above the knee.
I am not going to comment on market share, but I do believe that we're on a very tight competitive rates below the knee. On the other hand, I do think there is tremendous opportunity to increase the size of pie as opposed to scrapping over the sides of the slice again. So we're going to work on of course both of those things. But as you can't refer positions, it's just going to be very important strategy for us in '09.
Amit Bhalla - Citigroup
Just follow up, maybe you can just comment on the number of active accounts you have today. And I also did want to follow up and give us some more detail on what features have been new TURBO-Booster are really going to address that ease of use piece.
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