Patent ID: 7169303

Claim:
An extracorporeal treatment system comprising: a blood circuit including a first conduit for passing blood or other body fluid to a separation unit and a second conduit for passing the blood or other body fluid back to a patient, wherein the separation unit is configured to separate one or more components from the blood or body fluid into a treatment fluid; and a treatment fluid circuit comprising, in series, an inflow line for passing the treatment fluid from the separation unit to a sorbent reactor and an outflow line for passing the treatment fluid from the sorbent reactor to the separation unit or to the second conduit; wherein the sorbent reactor includes a housing including a first endwall portion, an opposite second endwall portion and cylindrical sidewall therebetween and defining an interior chamber configured to contain a liquid, a filter disposed in the interior chamber and partitioning the interior chamber into a first region and a second region, a sorbent suspension disposed in the first region, a first partition positioned in the inner region adjacent the first endwall portion to define a first shunt chamber between the first partition and the first endwall portion, a second partition positioned in the inner region adjacent the second endwall portion to define a second shunt chamber between the second partition and the second endwall portion and a rotor rotatably positioned in the first region; wherein the inflow line is positioned to pass the treatment fluid into the first region; and wherein the outflow line is positioned to pass the treatment fluid, after passage of the treatment fluid through the filter, from the second region to the separation unit or to the second conduit.