摘要 |
The present invention is related to a tubular body fluid mass exchange system which in principle is composed of a tube arrangement with up to 1.000 tubes, wherein each tube either is a microporous tube with pores in the range of 0,01 to 0,5 µm or each tube has at least one mass exchange aperture with a diameter between 0,1 to 3 mm; these tubes are arranged in a way that they comprise at least one collective inlet and at least one collective outlet, in a preferred embodiment one collective inlet leading to apertures in the environment and one collective outlet leading from apertures in the environment to a collective outlet. This system enables mass exchange in the abdomen via the serosa surface and thus extracorporealdetoxification, including albumin dialysis, and regulation. Furthermore, present invention is related to a mass exchange device which comprises a bioreactor for growing and exploiting the metabolic performance of micro-organisms in combination with mass exchange via the tubular system for temporary body insertion described before. Present invention also provides uses of the afore-mentioned device as extracorporeal detoxification system. |