Patent ID: RE39498

Claim:
A method for the removal of cholesterol, triglycerides and other lipids from animal plasma, serum, or other suitable blood fraction containing apolipoproteins, as a discontinuous flow system, said method comprising connecting a subject to a device for withdrawing blood, withdrawing blood containing blood cells from the subject, separating said fraction from the blood cells and mixing with a solvent mixture which extracts said lipids from the fraction but which does not extract said apolipoproteins from the fraction, after which the delipidated fraction is recombined with the blood cells and returned to the subject, such that the solve it solvent extraction step is carried out separately and remote from the subject while the subject is not still connected to the device for withdrawing blood frown from the subject, wherein the extraction solvent is removed from the delipidated fraction by mixing the delipidated fraction with an absorbent specific for the extraction solvent and wherein the absorbent does not remove said apolipoproteins from the delipilidated delipidated fraction being returned to the subject.