Patent ID: 9717755
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P,B01J,C08F,C08J,Y02A

Claim:
1. A method of treating systemic, regional, or local inflammation from a patient suffering inflammation, said method comprising administration of a therapeutically effective dose of a sorbent for an inflammatory mediator in said patient; wherein the sorbent is a biocompatible polymer that comprises a cross-linked, porous styrene or divinylbenzene copolymer; the biocompatible polymer having a pore structure that the total pore volume of pore size in the range of 50 {acute over (Å)} to 3000 {acute over (Å)} is greater than 0.5 cc/g to 3.0 cc/g dry polymer; wherein said inflammatory mediator comprises cytokines.