CytoSorbents Corporation (CTSO)

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New IEEE Spectrum article featuring Cytosorb:
"Brita Filter for Blood" Aims to Remove Harmful Cytokines for COVID-19 Patients

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“This is a fascinating idea,” said Jessica Manson, consultant rheumatologist and honorary senior lecturer at University College London Hospital. She is one of six co-authors of a 13 March letter to the journal The Lancet arguing that doctors need to be aware of so-called cytokine storm syndrome when treating critical COVID-19 patients.
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Manson says she recently talked with an official at University College London Hospital to see if they could set up a clinical trial to test a blood filtration idea for other cytokine storm-like conditions. Although this conversation was “pre-COVID.”

The evidence is still preliminary as to whether CytoSorb will be effective as an emergency COVID-19 intervention. That said, Manson says she’s at least convinced of the concept behind the therapy. “I think this is genius,” she says. “It’s something we should really work on.”


https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/blood-filtration-tech-removes-harmful-cytokines-covid19-patients