Processing blood
AssigneeTherakos Development Limited
InventorsDavid Peritt, Philip Wong, Janet Lesley MacPherson, Kevin Henrichsen, Geoffrey Phillip Symonds, Susan Pond
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Abstract
Methods (300), devices, and systems of processing blood are described. The method (300) comprises the steps of: obtaining (312) blood from a patient coupled to a single blood processing device to form a closed loop between the patient and the blood processing device; collecting (314) bulk mononuclear blood cells from the blood by leukapheresis implemented using the blood processing device in the closed loop; and enriching (316) concurrently target cells separated from non-target cells in the bulk mononuclear blood cells using the blood processing device in the closed loop.
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A method of processing blood, said method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining blood from a patient coupled to a single blood processing device to form a closed loop between said patient and said blood processing device;
- collecting bulk mononuclear blood cells from said blood by leukapheresis implemented using said blood processing device in said closed loop;
- and enriching concurrently target cells separated from non-target cells in said bulk mononuclear blood cells using said blood processing device in said closed loop.
A system for processing blood, said system comprising:
- means for obtaining blood from a patient;
- and a single blood processing device coupled to said obtaining means and said patient to form a closed loop between said patient and said blood processing device, said blood processing device comprising:
- means for collecting bulk mononuclear blood cells from said blood by leukapheresis implemented using said blood processing device in said closed loop;
- and means for enriching concurrently target cells separated from non-target cells in said bulk mononuclear blood cells using said blood processing device in said closed loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.