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2020年10月27日—OxirisistheonlyfiltersetcurrentlyavailableintheU.S.toreducepro-​inflammatorycytokinelevelsintheblood,includingforuseincontinuous ...

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DEERFIELD, Ill. - 2020-10-27

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global leader in acute care, recognizes the findings of a prospective, multicenter, observational study on data from the OxirisNet Registry evaluating severely ill patients with COVID-19 in Italy treated with extracorporeal (outside the body) blood purification (EBP) using the company’s Oxiris filter set. From the study, recently published in Critical Care[2], the investigators reported that patients experienced a significant reduction in serum IL-6 (a pro-inflammatory cytokine) levels, improvement in indicators of organ dysfunction and reduction in expected intensive care unit (ICU) mortality rate as compared to a historical control. Due to the study design, the results do not provide evidence of a causal relationship between EBP treatment with Oxiris and these outcomes. The results do, h...