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US 2014/0358060 A1Published application
System and method for blood filtering and/or treatment
AssigneeClil Medical Ltd.
InventorMorris Laster
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Abstract
A system for filtering or treating blood of a subject is provided herein. The system includes a bone port for establishing fluid communication with a bone marrow of the bone and a return port for returning blood from the bone marrow to a circulation of the subject. The system further includes a blood treatment or filtering device interposed between the bone and return ports thereby establishing a mini-circulatory system.
Claims22
A system for filtering blood of a subject comprising:
- (a) a bone port configured for establishing fluid communication with a bone marrow of said bone;
- (b) a fluid fractioning device being in fluid communication with said bone port and being capable of selectively fractioning blood flowing out of said bone marrow to thereby retain a fraction of said blood;
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- (c) a return port being in fluid communication with said fluid fractioning device and being for returning a non-retained fraction of said blood to a circulation of the subject.
1 more element
A method of reducing fluid overload in a subject comprising:
- (a) communicating blood from a bone marrow of a bone of the subject to a fluid fractioning device capable of selectively fractioning blood flowing out of said bone marrow to thereby retain a fraction of said blood;
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- (b) returning a non-retained fraction of said blood to circulation of the subject thereby reducing fluid overload thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.