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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2001
Taku Nikaido, Osaka, JP;
Mistutaka Ueda, Osaka, JP;
Nipro Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A dialysis system which does not need to use a physiological saline in replenishing a solution or cleaning and priming the dialysis system, does not need a troublesome setting operation and can easily and accurately set a flow rate of a replenisher solution. The dialysis system includes a closed-type water-removal control apparatus a dialyzer a fresh dialysate line as well as a used dialysate line an RO water pressurizing line an RO water pressurizing pump provided in the RO water pressurizing line an artery side blood line a blood pump provided at the artery side blood line and a vein side blood line According to the dialysis system, by pressurizing RO water into a communication line of the used dialysate, dialysate is made to flow from a dialysate flow path into a blood flow path through a dialysis membrane of the dialyzer and the inside of a blood circulation path can be cleaned and primed.