First Publication Using CytoSorb® Therapy During Cardiac Surgery

MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- CytoSorbents Corporation (OTCQB: CTSO), a critical care immunotherapy company commercializing its CytoSorb® cytokine adsorber in multiple countries worldwide, announced the PDF availability of the first publication describing the use of CytoSorb® intra-operatively during cardiac surgery at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Hospital - Grosshadern Campus, in Germany.

The retrospective study, authored by Frank Born, et al., was recently published in the scientific journal "Kardiotechnik" and entitled, "Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Heart Surgery:  New possibilities for treatment through the use of a cytokine adsorber during ECC?"  The study compared the post-operative inflammatory response in 40 patients (20 control vs 20 CytoSorb® treated) undergoing high risk cardiac surgery involving hypothermic arrest and antegrade cerebral perfusion. In the treatment group, CytoSorb® was placed into a bypass blood circuit in the heart-lung machine and used intra-operatively (during surgery) to remove inflammatory mediators from the patients' blood.  The control group did not utilize CytoSorb®. 

The authors demonstrate that CytoSorb® usage results in a statistically significant decline in inflammatory mediators such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and procalcitonin in the treatment group, compared to the control group, during the three days after the operation. 

Dr. Robert Bartlett, MD, Chief Medical Officer of CytoSorbents and cardiothoracic surgeon stated, "Ahead of a prospective, randomized, pivotal cardiac surgery trial in the U.S., this paper supports the safety, feasibility, and scientific merit of using CytoSorb® intra-operatively during high risk cardiac surgery.  As we have hypothesized, usage of CytoSorb® during the few hours of the surgical procedure appears to reduce the post-operative inflammatory response.  This could be very important clinically, as patients who develop uncontrolled inflammation after cardiac surgery are highly prone to having dangerous complications such as multiple organ failure.  This study gives us better visibility on what to expect in our own pending trial using CytoSorb® pre-emptively in this setting."

The complete PDF version of the English translation of this article can be downloaded from the CytoSorbents website here.

About CytoSorbents Corporation

CytoSorbents Corporation is a critical care focused immunotherapy company using blood purification to control severe inflammation -- with the goal of preventing or treating multiple organ failure in life-threatening illnesses. Organ failure is the cause of nearly half of all deaths in the intensive care unit, with little to improve clinical outcome. CytoSorb®, the Company's flagship product, is approved in the European Union as a safe and effective extracorporeal cytokine adsorber, designed to reduce the "cytokine storm" that could otherwise cause massive inflammation, organ failure and death in common critical illnesses such as sepsis, burn injury, trauma, lung injury, and pancreatitis. These are conditions where the risk of death is extremely high, yet no effective treatments exist. CytoSorbents' purification technologies are based on biocompatible, highly porous polymer beads that can actively remove toxic substances from blood and other bodily fluids by pore capture and surface adsorption. CytoSorbents has numerous products under development based upon this unique blood purification technology, protected by 32 issued US patents and multiple applications pending, including HemoDefend™, ContrastSorb, DrugSorb, and others. Additional information is available for download on the Company's website: http://www.cytosorbents.com/

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