Patent ID: 8211362

Claim:
A packaged blood purification device comprising: a hollow fiber blood-processing device including a bundle of hollow fibers and a cylindrical container holding said bundle of hollow fibers; a water-releasing oxygen absorber; and a gas impermeable container, wherein said hollow fiber blood-processing device and the water-releasing oxygen absorber are packaged and sealed within the gas impermeable container, and within the gas impermeable container, only a substantially oxygen-free gas separates the cylindrical container of the hollow fiber blood-processing device from the water-releasing oxygen absorber, such that the cylindrical container of the hollow fiber blood-processing device and the water-releasing oxygen absorber are directly exposed to each other through the substantially oxygen-free gas, wherein each of said gas impermeable container, said hollow fiber blood-processing device, and said water-releasing oxygen absorber has been subjected to sterilization, wherein the cylindrical container includes a single inlet port projecting and opening sideways adjacent to one end of the cylindrical container, and a single outlet port projecting and opening sideways from at an opposite end of the cylindrical container, wherein the cylindrical container has an outer circumferential wall which directly faces inner walls of gas impermeable container, wherein said hollow fibers include an amount hydrophilic polymer in a range of 3% to 20% by weight.