Affiliation:
1. Center of Biomedical Research, University of Vienna, Vienna
2. Interdisciplinary Institute of Bioengineering, Danube University, Krems - Austria
Abstract
Because of the closed plasma (secondary) circuit in the Microspheres based Detoxification System (MDS), a convective blood purification system, the same amount of filtrated plasma is backfiltrated into the blood circuit. Therefore, there is no direct way to determine the ultrafiltrate production rate, which is an important factor of efficiency. The only possible way to estimate the filtration properties of the filter is to consider pressure values. In this study the pressure distribution in the filter was investigated in vitro. To explain the results and to calculate inaccessible parameters, a mathematical model was estabilshed which also considered the asymmetric behaviour of the filter membrane. The result was a linear pressure gradient, agreement with the measurements was reasonably good (calculated primary pressure loss differes <13% from measured value when using mean measured filter resistance as model parameter). Linear pressure distribution offers the possibility of easily calculating the filtration length, a parameter which can be used to estimate the filter condition. The comparison between calculated filtration and backfiltration rates offers an instrument of control for these values.
Subject
Biomedical Engineering,Biomaterials,General Medicine,Medicine (miscellaneous),Bioengineering
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