Patent · US Expired

Process for the selective extracorporeal separation of blood constituents

US4648974A · kind A · utility

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19Claims

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Assignee

Intermedicat GmbH · CH

Inventors

Gerhard Rosskopf · Lüdenscheid, DE
Dietrich Seidel · Feldafing, DE
Heinrich Wieland · Giengen an der Brenz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 14, 1984
Grant date	Mar 10, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 14, 2004

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61M1/3623
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to processes and apparatus employing filter candles with an effective filter surface area of 0.2 to 2 square meters and a mean pore diameter of 0.2 to 2 micron in sterilizable cylindrical housings for the selective extracorporeal separation of precipitates of macromolecular pathologic and/or toxic species from blood or blood constituents, such as whole serum or plasma.

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