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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1984
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1982
Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An adsorbing material for an autoantibody and/or immune complexes is provided. The adsorbing material has an insoluble carrier and an organic low-molecular-weight compound containing a hydrophobic compound, which is fixed to the insoluble carrier. The adsorbing material may be used in an adsorbing device, which has a vessel having fluid inlet and outlet openings with the adsorbing material being contained in the vessel. The adsorbing device may be used in a blood purifying apparatus for absorbing and removing an autoantibody and/or immune complexes from blood plasma, which apparatus has (a) a plasma separating device and (b) a blood-plasma mixing device, which are disposed in series in a blood circulation passage, and (c) a plasma purifying device comprising the adsorbing device disposed in a plasma recycle passage connected to the blood circulation passage to introduce plasma, separated in the plasma separating device, into the mixing device.