Abstract
A blood purification system is being developed which is able to be flexibly adapted to various blood purification therapies such as hemofiltration, plasmapheresis which have been widely utilized in the treatment of blood toxification and diseases caused by renal or hepatic failure. The system is composed of 5 roller-pumps (2 DC-motor pumps, 3 pulse-motor pumps), 2 flow meters and 6 pressure sensors, controlled or supervised by a micro-computer interfaced with a personal computer having a CRT, disk drive unit and printer. The system is being evaluated through in vitro and ex vivo experiments in order to develop programs for the most suitable therapies corresponding to each disease.
