Patent ID: 7291122

Claim:
A method for treating a disease in a mammal comprising: pumping blood from the mammal using a blood pump; transferring the blood from the blood pump to a hemofilter; removing an ultrafiltrate from the blood using the hemofilter to create a filtered blood stream and an ultrafiltrate stream; transferring the ultrafiltrate stream from the hemofilter to an adsorptive device containing at least one fixed adsorbent material; selectively removing an inflammatory mediator which causes Compensatory Anti-inflammatory Response Syndrome from the ultrafiltrate stream using the adsorbent material to create a post adsorption ultrafiltrate stream; combining at least a portion of the post adsorption ultrafiltrate stream with the filtered blood stream and returning the combined post adsorption ultrafiltrate stream and the filtered blood stream to the mammal; transferring a portion of the post adsorption ultrafiltrate stream which is not returned to the mammal to a waste reservoir; and providing at least one therapeutic agent to the blood.