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Method and apparatus for the separation of blood into its components
Assignee: Fresenius SE and Co KGaA
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Filing: 1992-08-19
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Granted: 1994-01-25
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Expires: 2012-08-19
Abstract
Abstract The invention concerns a process and a device for more efficiently obtaining a highly pure fraction of thrombocytes during density centrifugation of blood, which no longer has to be filtered before infusion into a patient for leukocytes contained therein, in order to prevent immunization of the recipient. The invention is based on a two-stage density separation, wherein in a first stage a separation is made between cells and thrombocyte-rich plasma, and the thrombocyte-rich plasma is not separated into a thrombocyte concentrate and thrombocyte-poor plasm until a second stage. During the first separation, the position of the phase boundary is changed cyclically in the first separation stage. Through alternating the phase boundary in the first stage, it becomes possible for the first time in the second stage to obtain highly pure thrombocyte concentrations with minimally low leukocyte contamination from the transferred thrombocyte-rich plasma without loss of efficiency.
Inventors
- 👤 Wolfgang Biesel
- 👤 Johannes Geibel
- 👤 Henning Brass
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 12:30
CPC Classifications
B; B01; B01D; B01D43/00; A; A61; A61M; A61M1/00; A61M1/36; A61M1/3693; A61M2202/00; A61M2202/04; A61M2202/0413; A61M2202/0427; A61M2202/0429; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S210/00; Y10S210/929
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
96 words
A process for separation of blood into blood components by density centrifugation, comprising: separating the blood coarsely in a first separation stage into at least two phases, of which a first fraction consists primarily of blood cells and a second fraction consists primarily of thrombocyte-rich blood plasma, a phase boundary between the fractions being shifted alternatingly between at least two positions during separation of the blood in said first separation stage; and separating at least one of said first and second fractions further in a second separation stage to obtain a concentrate of a blood component.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
96 words
A process for separation of blood into blood components by density centrifugation, comprising: separating the blood coarsely in a first separation stage into at least two phases, of which a first fraction consists primarily of blood cells and a second fraction consists primarily of thrombocyte-rich blood plasma, a phase boundary between the fractions being shifted alternatingly between at least two positions during separation of the blood in said first separation stage; and separating at least one of said first and second fractions further in a second separation stage to obtain a concentrate of a blood component.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
The process according to claim 1, wherein for a first time interval a low to high phase boundary is set, and for a second time interval an extremely high phase boundary is set.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
22 words
The process according to claim 2, wherein the first interval is a collection interval and is longer than the second, transfer interval.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
21 words
The process according to claim 3, wherein the determination of the time intervals and/or the phase boundary positions is performed empirically.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
34 words
The process according to claim 3, wherein the determination of the time intervals and/or the phase boundary positions is performed as a function of the accumulated quantity of the blood component to be obtained.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
The process according to claim 3, wherein for the duration of the separation at least 2 collection intervals and at least 2 transfer intervals are provided in succession.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
168 words
A device for separation of blood into blood components by density centrifugation, comprising: a first separation stage including a separation chamber and blood pump means for introducing blood into the separation chamber, in which the blood is coarsely separated into at least two phases, of which a first fraction consists primarily of blood cells and a second fraction consists primarily of thrombocyte-rich blood plasma; and a second separation stage including a collection chamber and plasma pump means for delivering thrombocyte-rich blood plasma in the second fraction into the collection chamber for separating the second fraction further to obtain a concentrate of a blood component; and program controller means for operation of the device including adjustment of the pump speed of the plasma pump means, wherein the program controller means includes a control means for controlling the plasma pump means to shift a phase boundary between the two fractions in the separation chamber alternatingly between at least two positions during separation of the blood in the first separation stage.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
168 words
A device for separation of blood into blood components by density centrifugation, comprising: a first separation stage including a separation chamber and blood pump means for introducing blood into the separation chamber, in which the blood is coarsely separated into at least two phases, of which a first fraction consists primarily of blood cells and a second fraction consists primarily of thrombocyte-rich blood plasma; and a second separation stage including a collection chamber and plasma pump means for delivering thrombocyte-rich blood plasma in the second fraction into the collection chamber for separating the second fraction further to obtain a concentrate of a blood component; and program controller means for operation of the device including adjustment of the pump speed of the plasma pump means, wherein the program controller means includes a control means for controlling the plasma pump means to shift a phase boundary between the two fractions in the separation chamber alternatingly between at least two positions during separation of the blood in the first separation stage.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
35 words
The device according to claim 7, wherein the control means includes means for setting a low to high phase boundary during a first time interval and an extremely high phase boundary during a second interval.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
20 words
The device according to claim 8, wherein the boundary setting means sets the first interval longer than the second interval.
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