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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110306913 | BEARING AND BEARING ASSEMBLY FOR UMBILICUS OF A FLUID PROCESSING SYSTEM A one-piece bearing is provided for use with a fluid processing assembly of the type having an umbilicus, a bearing support, a gimbal received within the bearing support, and a liner at least partially received within the gimbal. The bearing is secured to a midsection o... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110295175 | Sequential Extracoporeal Treatment of Bodily Fluids An article and method to treat extracorporeally a patient's bodily fluid. The bodily fluid can include blood, cerebral spinal fluid and lymph. A first stage of the method includes applying a treatment. The treatment can comprise dosing with a medication, thermal treatme... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110245750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACOUSTICALLY ENHANCED REMOVAL OF BUBBLES FROM A FLUID A vessel for removing bubbles from a fluid is provided. The vessel includes a fluid inlet port for receiving the fluid and a bubble outlet for removing bubbles in the fluid from the vessel. One or more ultrasonic transducers transmit one or more ultrasonic beams through... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110230813 | Process for Metabolic Control and High Solute Clearance and Solutions for Use Therein The present disclosure describes novel standardized citrate replacement fluid solutions and a standardized dialysate solution for use with CRRT methods. The standardized citrate replacement fluid solutions and standardized dialysate solutions do not require modification... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110208105 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE ION CONCENTRATIONS OF CITRATE ANTI-COAGULATED EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD PURIFICATION The invention relates to a device for the citrate anti-coagulated extracorporeal blood purification comprising: an extracorporeal blood purification system comprising an extracorporeal blood circuit (202), which comprises a dialysis unit (205), a blood inf... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110137224 | MANUALLY OPERATED DISPOSABLE SINGLE-NEEDLE CIRCUIT FOR EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT OF BLOOD A disposable single-needle extracorporeal blood treatment circuit for such treatments of blood hemofiltration, plasma filtration, detoxification and alike includes a manually operated syringe attached to a proximal bifurcation and a patient's access port attached to a d... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110105980 | TREATMENT OF THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS BY REMOVAL OF AUTOANTIBODIES The invention relates to the use of a specific ligand for antibodies, preferably autoantibodies in the manufacture of a column for the treatment of thromboangiitis obliterans. The invention pertains furthermore to the apharesis column with at least one anti-IgG antibody... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105979 | PATIENT TREATMENT AND MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS The invention provides apparatus and methods for home or other remote delivery of health care that gather subjective and objective measures of patient health and treatment, analyzing them (e.g., correlating them with one another and/or with norms) and reporting them to ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110077576 | Apparatus For Making Extracorporeal Blood Circulation Available An apparatus for providing an extracorporeal blood circuit control includes a base module having a control device and a patient module releasably connected to the base module and having blood-conducting components of the extracorporeal blood circuit. A pivot system is a... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110054378 | Methods and Systems for Measuring and Verifying Additives for Use in a Dialysis Machine The present application discloses a portable dialysis system for conducting a dialysis treatment. The portable dialysis system has a controller unit that includes a display, a scale, a bar code reader, and a memory storing a plurality of programmatic instructions. Upon ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110046534 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ACCESS TO A PATIENT, IN PARTICULAR A VASCULAR ACCESS DURING AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT The invention relates to the monitoring of an access to a patient at a puncture point, in particular the monitoring of the arterial and/or venous vascular access during an extracorporeal blood treatment. The device according to the invention is a magnetoelastic moisture... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110004141 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING THE RECIRCULATION IN A FISTULA OR THE CARDIOPULMONARY RECIRCULATION, AND A BLOOD TREATMENT DEVICE COMPRISING A DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE FISTULA RECIRCULATION OR THE CARDIOPULMONARY RECIRCULATION PART A method for determining the recirculation in a fistula and/or the cardiopulmonary recirculation part during an extracorporeal blood treatment is disclosed, where the blood to be treated flows in an extracorporeal blood circuit through a blood chamber of a dialyzer spli... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100312161 | MEDICAL APPARATUS In a hemodiafiltration apparatus, a membrane device (2) comprises a blood chamber (3) and a fluid chamber (4) separated by a semipermeable membrane (5). A grounding device (17) is connected to the discharge line by means of a tubular c... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100298752 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING A DESIRED BLOOD COMPONENT AND PERFORMING A PHOTOPHERESIS TREATMENT An improved method for separating whole blood into components and collecting a desired blood component. The method allows a desired blood component to be subjected to centrifugal forces within a separator for prolonged periods of time, yielding a cleaner cut and higher ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100292627 | AIR SEPARATOR FOR EXTRACORPOREAL FLUID TREATMENT SETS An air separator (1) comprises a first chamber (2) where blood or other fluid can be received, an inlet and an outlet port associated to the bottom wall (4) and in fluid communication with the first chamber. A first channel (14) extending alo... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285044 | METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF CANCERS A method to treat cancer uses ultrapheresis, refined to remove compounds of less than 120,000 daltons molecular weight, followed by administration of replacement fluid, to stimulate the patient's immune system to attack solid tumors. In the preferred embodiment, the pat... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100280430 | INFUSION APPARATUS In an infusion apparatus, an infusion line (4) connects a container (2) of an infusion fluid to an extracorporeal blood circuit (23). A first valve (6) closes the infusion line downstream of an infusion pump (5). An expansion chamber (... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100274173 | Regional cardiac tissue treatment A method for treating an occlusion in a coronary artery of a patient includes percutaneously advancing an occlusion treatment tool (such as an angioplasty balloon or stent delivery device) through the vasculature of the patient and into a coronary artery to a site of th... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100217173 | Device, system, and method for controllably reducing inflammatory mediators in a subject Devices, systems, and methods are provided for controlling an inflammatory response in a subject. Extracorporeal devices, systems, and methods are provided that alter the functional structure of one or more inflammatory mediators in the peripheral blood of the subject. ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217172 | Device, system, and method for controllably reducing inflammatory mediators in a subject Devices, systems, and methods are provided for controlling an inflammatory response in a subject. Devices, systems, and methods are provided that alter the functional structure of one or more inflammatory mediators in the peripheral blood of the subject. The device or s... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100204634 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PERFUSION THERAPY Devices, methods, and assemblies for perfusion therapy including cerebral perfusion therapy such as those for use in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The treatment includes delivery of blood to or about the vicinity of a thrombus site.... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100198130 | Method and Apparatus for Producing Autologous Clotting Components A method and apparatus for obtaining various components of a multi-component material. Generally, a component of a whole blood sample may be concentrated from a patient and re-introduced to the same patient. For example, a clotting component, such as thrombin, from a wh... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198132 | Blood Treatment Method Adapted to at Least Partially Eliminate the Carbon Dioxide Content and Related Device A blood treatment method is described that is adapted to at least partially eliminate the carbon dioxide content of the type comprising a step of drawing a blood flow. Advantageously according to the invention, the method further comprises the steps of: acidifying the b... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100185133 | MULTI-TREATMENT PLANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD A treatment planning apparatus (100) includes a treatment modeler (102). The treatment (104) modeler uses models (1121-N) of a plurality of treatment modalities in a treatment space (104) to generate a treatment protocol ( 07/22/2010 | |
| 20100130904 | METHOD TO INHIBIT PROLIFERATION AND GROWTH OF METASTASES The present invention provides a method to reduce the amount of undesired growth factors in the circulating blood of a subject to prevent tumor growth and proliferation during or after a wound healing and/or other local tissue repair process on a subject, comprising ext... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100114002 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN EXTRACORPOREAL CONTROL OF BLOOD GLUCOSE A method for controlling the blood glucose level of a patient and periodically calibrating the glucose sensor using a calibration solution. The method controls the level of blood glucose in a patient through an extracorporeal blood circuit by: withdrawing blood from a v... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100106071 | BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS A blood treatment apparatus (1) comprising a degassing unit (15) receiving gas-containing fluid and supplying degassed fluid to a fluid chamber (3) of a blood treatment unit (2). The degassing unit has a gas separator (16), a degassing... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100087771 | BLOOD PURIFICATION SYSTEM Provision of a blood purification system comprising a blood purification tubing and a blood purification apparatus particularly suitable for use in continuous hemofiltration in which in the treatment of a patient with renal disease, multiple organ failure, and the like,... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100022934 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ACCESS DISCONNECTION A dialysis system includes: a blood filter; a dialysate pump connected to a dialysate portion of the blood filter; a blood pump connected to a blood portion of the blood filter, the blood pump including a diaphragm that is moved in cycles to pump the blood, the cycles h... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100016776 | TREATMENT DEVICE WITH MEMORY-SUPPORTED CONTROL MEANS The therapy device stores the time profiles of the blood pressure and of other influencing variables during preceding therapy procedures. The time profile of the blood pressure and of other influencing variables during the actual therapy is also recorded. An analytical ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100004578 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEMBRANELESS SEPARATION OF FLUIDS The present invention is directed to devices, systems and methods for removing undesirable materials from a sample fluid by contact with a second fluid. The sample fluid flows as a thin layer adjacent to, or between, concurrently flowing layers of the second fluid, with... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090309835 | User Interface Processing Device This patent application relates generally to processing devices in the medical device area.... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090304677 | Extracorporeal Removal of Microvesicular Particles The invention described herein teaches methods of removing microvesicular particles, which include but are not limited to exosomes, from the systemic circulation of a subject in need thereof with the goal of reversing antigen-specific and antigen-nonspecific immune supp... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090246204 | USE OF A CD28 BINDING SUBSTANCE FOR MAKING A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION The invention relates to the use of a CD28-specific superagonistic monoclonal antibody (mAb) or of a mimicry compound hereto for making a pharmaceutical composition for the induction and/or multiplication of regulatory T cells.... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090198170 | MULTI-PASS DIALYSIS A system for dialysis is disclosed. The system uses renal failure therapy fluid, such as dialysis fluid, several times before it is discarded. In a home hemodialysis application, the patient's blood is passed through the dialyzer several times, that is, multiple passes ... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090191175 | THERAPEUTIC METHODS USING PEG-CONJUGATED AGENTS AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING THE SAME The present invention discloses methods and devices for selectively removing anti-PEG antibodies from a patient's blood prior to administration of a PEG-conjugated therapeutic agent so as to prevent immune reactions against the PEG-conjugated therapeutic agents when the... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090186065 | ISOLATING AND PURIFYING CELLS FOR THERAPY The present invention provides methods and devices for isolating cells from a subject by circulating the subject's body fluid over an affinity moeity coupled matrix to isolate isolate cells from a subject either ex vivo or in vivo. One aspect of the invention is directe... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090171261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING FLUID FLOW RATE A switch valve for use in an extracorporeal blood flow circuit comprises a valve housing having a chamber, four openings communicating with the chamber, and a valve member located in the valve chamber. A first opening is to be connected to a patient via an arterial cann... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090143710 | MARKER FOR NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA The present invention provides for methods and materials for diagnosing and treating neuromyelitis optica (NMO).... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090131767 | Body-associated fluid transport structure evaluation devices Implantable devices for evaluating body-associated fluid transport structures and methods for using the same are provided. In some instances, the implantable devices include an elongated structure with at least one hermetically sealed integrated circuit sensor stably as... | 05/21/2009 |
