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Xcorporeal, Inc. Closes Merger With CT Holdings Enterprises, Inc. and Begins Trading.


LOS ANGELES -- Xcorporeal, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
:XCPL) today announced that it has completed its merger with CT Holdings Enterprises, Inc., under which XCorporeal, Inc. has emerged as the surviving entity. Xcorporeal now trades under the symbol XCPL on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board.

About Xcorporeal

Xcorporeal, Inc. is a medical device company developing an innovative extra-corporeal platform of products that may be used in devices to replace the function of various human organs. The platform leads to three initial products; devices for home and hospital renal replacement therapy Renal replacement therapy is a term used to encompass life-supporting treatments for renal failure.

It includes:
  • hemodialysis,
  • peritoneal dialysis,
  • hemofiltration and
  • renal transplantation.
 (RRT RRT Rapid Response Team
RRT Registered Respiratory Therapist
RRT Renal Replacement Therapy
RRT Regional Response Team
RRT Right Side (philately)
RRT Relative Retention Time
RRT Round Robin Test
RRT Rating Region Table
) and the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK WAK Wearable Artificial Kidney
WAK Windows Administration Kit
). These devices will seek to provide patients with improved, efficient and cost effective therapy. The WAK is a revolutionary device intended to enable patients with End-Stage Renal Disease End-stage renal disease (ESRD)
Total kidney failure; chronic kidney failure is diagnosed as ESRD when kidney function falls to 5-10% of capacity.

Mentioned in: Chronic Kidney Failure

end-stage renal disease 
 (ESRD ESRD end-stage renal disease.
ESRD
End-stage renal disease; chronic or permanent kidney failure.

Mentioned in: Dialysis, Kidney

ESRD End-stage renal disease, see there
) to achieve a quality of life closer to that of healthy individuals. A prototype of the WAK has been successfully tested in human subjects. The RRT markets represent multibillion dollar opportunities.

Xcorporeal is developing a portable, multifunctional renal replacement device that will offer cost effective therapy for those patients suffering from Acute Renal Failure acute renal failure Acute kidney failure Nephrology An abrupt decline in renal function, triggered by various processes–eg, sepsis, shock, trauma, kidney stones, drug toxicity-aspirin, lithium, substances of abuse, toxins, iodinated radiocontrast.  (ARF), which causes a rapid decline in kidney function. In the U.S., the disease affects more than 200,000 patients annually, with a mortality rate of 50%. The Xcorporeal platform technology is a natural fit for the hospital market of renal replacement therapy since it is designed to provide cost-effective, continuous therapy without the need for expensive replacement fluids. The projected 2007 market opportunity for the U.S. is approximately $1.4 billion. The disposable market is expected to grow at 10% per year. The devices typically need to be replaced every five years. The Company intends to commercialize this device in the first half of 2009.

Xcorporeal also plans to commercialize a home Hemodialysis machine and the WAK for the ESRD market, which includes patients with severe kidney disease in which the kidneys cease to function. Xcorporeal's devices will combine the best attributes of currently marketed home hemodialysis machines to create devices offering patients a convenient, durable and truly portable device for home use. The Company believes its machines will provide a cost-effective alternative to current home treatment modalities, due to their ability to offer hemodialysis without the need for dialysate dialysate /di·al·y·sate/ (di-al´i-sat) the fluid and solutes in a dialysis process that flow through the dialyzer, do not pass through the membrane, and are discarded along with removed toxic substances after leaving the dialyzer.  fluids.

There are approximately 350,000 patients receiving dialysis therapy in the United States. At such a stage, patients require either a kidney transplant or dialysis to avoid complications that are life threatening. Chronic kidney disease Chronic kidney disease (CKD), also know as chronic renal disease, is a progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years through five stages. Each stage is a progression through an abnormally low and progressively worse glomerular filtration rate, which is  is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States and is one of the most expensive chronic diseases, with cost exceeding $30 billion per year. Approximately 75 million Americans are at risk of developing chronic renal failure chronic renal failure Chronic kidney failure Nephrology A slow decline in renal function, which may be 2º to chronic HTN, DM, CHF, SLE, or sickle cell anemia and, if extreme, leads to ESRD, mandating kidney dialysis; an abrupt decline in renal function may be . Worldwide, there are approximately 1.2 million people suffering from chronic kidney failure Chronic Kidney Failure Definition

Chronic kidney failure occurs when disease or disorder damages the kidneys so that they are no longer capable of adequately removing fluids and wastes from the body or of maintaining the proper level of certain
 at an annual cost of approximately $50 billion. There is currently no cure for chronic renal failure and therapy focuses on controlling the symptoms, minimizing complications and slowing disease progression.

The WAK will, in addition, allow patients to undergo dialysis 24 hours a day/7 days a week, thereby mimicking the function of a healthy kidney. The WAK will be fully automated, battery operated, light-weight and waterproof.

During the 2006 fourth quarter, Xcorporeal completed private placements of its common stock to institutional and accredited investors for gross proceeds of approximately $29.4 million. The Company currently has 14.4 million common shares outstanding.

Additional Company information may be found on the Internet at: www.xcorporeal.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for statements of historical fact, the matters discussed in this press release are forward looking and made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that may cause actual results to differ materially from stated expectations. These risk factors include, among others, limited operating history, difficulty in developing, exploiting and protecting proprietary technologies, intense competition and substantial regulation in the medical device industry; and additional risks factors as discussed in the reports filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on its website at http://www.sec.gov.
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