Aethlon Medical Announces Data Supported Strategy to Increase Hepatitis-C (HCV) ...(r-hour Hemopurifier(R) treatment Aethlon...)

Date:3/25/2009

r-hour Hemopurifier(R) treatment, Aethlon projects that a patient with a high viral load of 7 million iu/ml would be reduced to undetectable HCV levels after approximately three days of continuous Hemopurifier(R) treatment. This corresponds to a 4.06 log reduction or an 11,000-fold decrease in viral load. An HCV patient with a moderate viral load of 2 million iu/ml would be projected to reach undetectable levels in approximately 2.5 days of continuous treatment. All of the studies were conducted in highly health compromised HCV infected patients who suffer from end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring regular kidney dialysis treatment. In these treatment studies, the Hemopurifier(R) inhibited the progression of HCV infection in ESRD patients when included during dialysis treatment administered thrice weekly for four-hours. The studies were conducted at the Fortis Hospital in Delhi, India.

About Hepatitis-C Virus

HCV is a leading cause of chronic liver disease and liver transplants. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 180 million people worldwide, or approximately 3% of the world's population, are infected with HCV. 130 million of these individuals are chronic HCV carriers who are at increased risk of developing liver cirrhosis or liver cancer, approximately 15 million of whom are in the United States, Europe and Japan. The CDC has reported that almost four million people in the United States have been infected with HCV, of whom 2.7 million were chronically infected. Approximately 2.6%, or 71,000, of these HCV patients are treated each year. Although chronic HCV infection varies greatly in its course and outcomes, 70% of chronically infected patients develop some form of chronic liver disease, including, in some cases, cirrhosis or liver cancer.

In the United States, the current standard of care for the treatment of HCV is a combination of pegylated interferon and a nucleoside analog named ri
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