Patient-specific immunoadsorbers for the extracorporeal apheresis and methods for their preparation

Abstract

A process for preparing a patient-specific immunoadsorber, which comprises (i) extracting a body fluid from a patient having an immunopathological condition, the fluid containing immune complexes that are relevant to that immunopathological condition, (ii) contacting the extracted fluid with an adsorbent for the immune complexes to form adsorbed immune complexes, (iii) eluting the adsorbed complexes to form an eluate, (iv) fractionating the eluate into a plurality of immune complex component fractions, and (v) immobilizing the immune complex components on one or more biologically compatible carriers activated to bond to its surface one or more desired immune complex components.

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