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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Nxstage Medical, Inc., Lawrence, MA (US);
Inventors:
William K. Weigel, York, ME (US);
Joseph E. Turk, Jr., North Andover, MA (US);
Jan Stange, Rostock, DE;
Dennis M. Treu, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Assignee:
NXSTAGE MEDICAL, INC., Lawrence, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/36 (2006.01); A61M 1/16 (2006.01); A61M 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/3663 (2013.01); A61M 1/1603 (2014.02); A61M 1/1633 (2014.02); A61M 1/1645 (2014.02); A61M 1/1676 (2014.02); A61M 1/1694 (2013.01); A61M 1/3403 (2014.02); A61M 1/3417 (2014.02); A61M 1/3679 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed, embodiments of which provide single pass dialysis to remove water and uremic toxins is performed simultaneously with the albumin dialysis therapy by passing the albumin solution through a dialysis filter which dialyses it before the solution is returned to the cycler. In embodiments, the single pass dialysis stage is upstream of the albumin filtering stage.