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US 2010/0133203 A1Published application
Blood bag system and process for the inactivation of pathogens in platelet concentrates by use of the blood bag system
OwnerWolfram Hubert Walker, Frank Tolksdorf +2inventors
InventorsWolfram Hubert Walker, Frank Tolksdorf, Thierry Verpoort, Francis Goudaliez
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a blood bag system, a method for its manufacture, and a process for reducing pathogens and leucocytes in biological fluids in particular in therapeutic quantities of platelet concentrates (PC) contained in the blood bag system, using UV-light and agitation, wherein part of the plasma of the PC is optionally exchanged against a platelet additive solution.
Claims32
A blood bag system comprising a biological fluid such as a platelet concentrate and further comprising:
- a storage bag (4) made from a plastic material,
- an irradiation bag (2) made from a flexible plastic material substantially transparent to UV irradiation and having a volume capacity of at least 10 times of the volume of the biological fluid contained in the irradiation bag and,
- the storage bag (4) and the irradiation bag (2) being one and the same bag or at least two different but interconnectable bags.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.