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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
  • A61M1/00—Suction or pumping devices for medical purposes; Devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquids; Drainage systems
  • A61M1/36—Other treatment of blood in a by-pass of the natural circulatory system, e.g. temperature adaptation, irradiation ; Extra-corporeal blood circuits
  • A61M1/3679—Other treatment of blood in a by-pass of the natural circulatory system, e.g. temperature adaptation, irradiation ; Extra-corporeal blood circuits by absorption
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
  • A61M1/00—Suction or pumping devices for medical purposes; Devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquids; Drainage systems
  • A61M1/34—Filtering material out of the blood by passing it through a membrane, i.e. hemofiltration or diafiltration
  • A61M1/3472—Filtering material out of the blood by passing it through a membrane, i.e. hemofiltration or diafiltration with treatment of the filtrate
  • A61M1/3486—Biological, chemical treatment, e.g. chemical precipitation; treatment by absorbents
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S530/00—Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof
  • Y10S530/827—Proteins from mammals or birds
  • Y10S530/829—Blood
  • Y10S530/83—Plasma; serum

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the treatment of patients having autoimmune diseases and allergy (hypersensitivity of immediate type) . More particu ⁇ larly, the invention provides a method and apparatus for treating such patients by continuously removing interferon from the blood of a patient being treated.
• the article also suggested treating autoimmune diseases and allergy with anti-interferon immunoglobulin (Nature, 247:551, February 22, 1974).
• the present invention provides both a method and an apparatus for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and allergy (hypersensitivity of immediate type) .
• One embodiment of the invention utilizes an apparatus having a first component or part for taking blood from a patient, a second component or part containing sorbent for removing interferon from the blood, and a third part or component for returning blood having a reduced amount or free from ' interferon to the patient.
• the apparatus is a closed system in which all of the parts are in fluid communication. During the treatment of a patient, the process of removing interferon from the blood is continuous. With this embodiment, the apparatus and method absorb interferon from the whole blood of the patient. The whole blood is pumped directly to the absorption system and, after absorption, is returned directly to the patient.
• a method and apparatus are provided in which interferon is absorbed from plasma.
• the inter ⁇ feron is absorbed from plasma containing leukocytes.
• a blood separator can be a filter or a plasma/cell separator of the type manufactured by American Instrument Co. of Silver Spring, Maryland.
• the separator also separates lympho ⁇ cytes from the blood cells. Then plasma, or plasma with leukocytes, is pumped from the separator to the absorbent system. After absorption of interferon, the plasma or plasma with leukocytes, is rejoined with the blood cells or formed elements of the blood and re ⁇ turned to the patient.
• Suitable sorbents for interferon used with the present invention include anti-interferon globulins against different types of interferon, ob ⁇ tained from animals or by monoclonal antibodies techniques; albumen; and BLUE DEXTRAN 2000 (as described in U.S. Patent No. 4,172,071) .
• a suitable solid support for these sorbents is SEPHAROSE (as also described in U.S. Patent No. 4,172,071).
• the effectiveness of the present invention when treating autoimmune diseases and hypersensitivity of immediate type could be enhanced when a combined sorbent is used that removes both interferon and auto- antibodies from the blood being treated.
• One example of treating an autoimmune disease uses a combined sorbent that has a first component that absorbs interferon and a second component, for example, DNA to absorb anti-DNA antibodies.
• a combined sorbent is useful when treating blood from patients having systemic lupus erythematosus.
• the in ⁇ vention uses a combined sorbent, with a first sorbent being provided for removing interferon and a second sorbent being provided for removing antibodies against cardiac tissue.
• the second sorbent can include both certain serotypes of streptococcus and antigens of cardiac tissue.
• a combined sorbent having a first component for absorbing interferon and a second com ⁇ ponent made of an antibody against IgE (immunoglobulin E) is used in the present invention so that both inter ⁇ feron and IgE are removed during treatment of the patient's blood.
• IgE immunoglobulin E
• Fig. 1 is a schematic illustration of one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 2 is a schematic block diagram of another embodiment of the present invention.
• the appara ⁇ tus which is generally designated 10, comprises an inlet tube 12, means 14 for removing interferon from blood, and an outlet tube 16.
• the inlet tube 12 has an inlet end 18 connected to a cannula (not shown) inserted into an artery 20 of a patient.
• the outlet end 22 of the inlet tube 12 is connected to the inlet 24 of a housing 26 containing a plurality of porous glass beads 28, such as those described in U.S. Patent No. 4,168,261.
• the outlet 30 of the housing 26 is connected to an end 32 of the outlet tube 16.
• the other (outlet) end 34 of tube 16 is connected to a cannula (not shown) inserted into a vein 36 of the patient.
• a pump 37 is included in the apparatus 10.
• the inlet tube 12 provides means for removing whole blood from a patient
• the outlet tube 16 provides means for returning the blood to the patient.
• the tubes 12 and 16 and the means 14 are in continuous fluid communication with each other.
• the cannula connected to the inlet 18 is inserted into an artery of the patient, and the cannula connected to the outlet 34 is inserted into a vein.
• the pump is then actuated to pump blood from the patient through the housing 26 so that the beads 28 can remove interferon from the blood.
• the present invention provides a method and apparatus for obtain ⁇ ing interferon for scientific and therapeutic purposes.
• the method used with this embodiment of the invention provides a continuous process for treatment of autoimmune and allergic diseases.
• the process involves removing blood from a patient, passing the removed blood through'means for removing interferon from the blood, and returning the blood, which is free from interferon, to the patient.
• the apparatus 50 includes an inlet tube, generally designated 52, and an outlet tube, generally designated 54.
• the inlet .tube 52 is similar to the inlet tube 12, and the outlet tube 54 is similar to the outlet tube 16 of the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1.
• a pump 56 is provided to pump blood from the patient into a separator 58.
• a suitable separator is a plasma filter of the type described in British Patent No. 1,562,546. Other suitable methods of plasmapheresis, such as centrifugation, also are usable to separate plasma or plasma with leukocytes from the whole blood.
• the plasma, or plasma with leukocytes is fed from the -11- separator 58 to a sorbent containing device 60.
• a sorbent containing device 60 can be the means 14 for removing inter ⁇ feron described in connection with Fig. 1, a device using a process of the type described in U.S " . Patent No. 4,172,071, or any other suitable method using a capacious sorbent for interferon carried by a solid support.
• the plasma, or plasma with leukocytes after passing through sorbent within the device 60, rejoins the formed elements of blood removed from the whole blood by the separator 58.
• a combiner 62 is illus ⁇ trated for providing the mixing function. Such com ⁇ biner need be no more complex .
• a device 61 for adding heparin to the plasma or plasma with leukocytes is positionable between the separator 58 and the device 60. Sections of tubing T interconnect the pump 56, the separator 38, the devic 60, the device 61, and the combiner 64, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Thus, the various components of the apparatus 50 are in fluid communication with each other.
• the method of treating' utoimmune and allergic diseases utilizing the apparatus of Fig. 2 involves the connecting of the inlet and the outlet tubes to an artery and a vein, respectively, of a patient to be treated; pumping the whole blood of the patient to a separator; separating plasma, or plasma with leukocytes, from blood cells within the separator; passing the plasma, or plasma with leukocytes, through a device for removing interferon; combining the plasma, or plasma with leukocytes, after absorption of interferon, with the previously removed blood cells; and returning the combined blood to the patient.
• the separator device separates the blood into plasma
• the device 60 utilizes a combined sorbent having a first component for absorb ⁇ ing interferon from the plasma or plasma with leuko ⁇ cytes and a second component that selectively absorbs autoantibodies from the plasma or plasma with leuko- cytes being treated.
• the particular component is a function of the disease or condition being treated.
• the first step is to provide healthy donors, which can be either humans or animals.
• the donors are injected with agents for inducing production of interferon.
• the blood is processed through an apparatus of the type illustrated in either Fig. 1 or Fig. 2.
• the blood after being treated in such apparatus, is returned to the donor.
• the blood can be removed from either blood vessel, that is, a . ein or an artery.
• the blood after processing, is then returned to a vein.

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