Tissue processing apparatus and method for processing adipose tissue

A method for making a product comprising a delivery composition for administration to a human patient of uncultured stromal vascular fraction cells derived from harvested adipose tissue from the patient, the method comprising:

• washing a volume of harvested adipose tissue from the patient within a single-use, portable processing container to prepare washed adipose tissue within the processing container;
• after the washing, enzymatically digesting the washed adipose tissue within the processing container, the enzymatically digesting comprising;
• preparing a process mixture in the processing container, comprising adding an enzyme-containing digestion medium to the processing container to contact the washed adipose tissue;
• and
• agitating the process mixture to release stromal vascular fraction cells from the washed adipose tissue;
• after a retention time following the adding, centrifuging the processing container to form in the processing container a density-separated pellet phase of stromal vascular fraction cell concentrate comprising stromal vascular fraction cells released from the washed adipose tissue during the enzymatically digesting;
• after the centrifuging, selectively removing at least a portion of the stromal vascular fraction cell concentrate from the processing container;
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• disposing in a syringe a delivery composition comprising a volume of 0.25 milliliter to 2.5 milliliters of the stromal vascular fraction cell concentrate removed from the processing container dispersed in a dispersion medium suitable for administration to the patient.