Devices for Inflammatory System Modulation

Engineering of a Pheresis Intervention for Sepsis (SEPsIS) Hemoadsorption Device

• Extracorporeal blood purification device that removes the inflammatory molecules which cause severe sepsis
  
  
• Device packed with adsorbing polymer beads covered in biocompatible coating
  
  
• Cytokines involved in sepsis adsorbed on beads
  

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This material was originally published on the website of the Medical Devices Laboratory.