HORIZON MEDICAL PRODUCTS

HMP(TM) is a rapidly growing specialty medical device company focused on manufacturing and marketing vascular access products. Vascular access products comprised over an estimated $1.3 billion market worldwide in 1997. The Company's vascular access product lines include implantable ports, which are used primarily in cancer treatment protocols, and specialty catheters, which are used in hemodialysis and stem cell apheresis procedures. The Company believes it offers the broadest available product lines in each of these product categories and that it has the largest direct sales force focused exclusively on vascular access products.