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Blood Purification explained

What blood purification with hemoadsorption means for you

We specialize in a blood purification method called adsorption that can cleanse your blood of toxins and other unwanted substances that can cause disease. Here is how it works.

Keeping the balance to prevent damage in the body.

Our bodies are complex and function best when in balance.

Much of this control occurs in the blood, which transports thousands of substances that are required for life. The body regulates the amount of these substances, ensuring they remain within optimal levels, and makes adjustments as needed.

When our bodies are unable to regulate themselves, imbalance and disease is the result.

This can occur in cases of serious illness such as infections, or due to certain medicines or drugs. It can also happen if organs like our lungs, kidneys, or liver begin to fail. Typically, a combination of these reasons, and even others, result in life-threatening disease.

When this happens, it is important to address the imbalance as quickly as possible.

Blood purification is the one of the best ways to quickly restore balance by actively removing the harmful substances in our bloodstream, preventing damage, and helping us to recover or stay healthy.

  • Our bodies are complex and function best when in balance.

    Much of this control occurs in the blood, which transports thousands of substances that are required for life. The body regulates the amount of these substances, ensuring they remain within optimal levels, and makes adjustments as needed.

  • When our bodies are unable to regulate themselves, imbalance and disease is the result.

    This can occur in cases of serious illness such as infections, or due to certain medicines or drugs. It can also happen if organs like our lungs, kidneys, or liver begin to fail. Typically, a combination of these reasons, and even others, result in life-threatening disease.

  • When this happens, it is important to address the imbalance as quickly as possible.

    Blood purification is the one of the best ways to quickly restore balance by actively removing the harmful substances in our bloodstream, preventing damage, and helping us to recover or stay healthy.

That is where CytoSorbents comes in.

With our unique blood purification technology, we help cleanse the blood of harmful substances that other therapies and technologies cannot remove as efficiently. In doing so, our goal is to restore balance, protect the body, prevent or reduce serious complications, and help your doctor get you on the road to recovery faster.

Our blood purification technology

How tiny beads can make a vital difference

Our therapies are based on tiny porous polymer beads, each no larger than a grain of salt. They are compatible with blood and are non-toxic.

These beads have a special internal structure full of tiny holes and channels. When these beads are packed together in our CytoSorb® cartridge, they act like a sponge with a huge surface area—comparable to more than seven U.S. football fields or five soccer fields, in a single device. When blood is pumped through our cartridges, this large surface area is ideally suited to binding and removing a broad range of toxins and other harmful substances that traditional blood purification, like dialysis, cannot remove as efficiently.
 
Being broad-spectrum is one of the keys to the power of our technology, as so many dangerous substances can be out of balance in life-threatening diseases. But the technology is also selective by focusing on the removal of substances that are at very high concentrations, are a certain size, and can bind to the beads. Beneficial things such as cells, electrolytes, sugars, and antibodies go through the cartridge largely unaffected. Excessive levels of harmful substances like those that cause a “cytokine storm” and bacterial toxins, for example, go into the beads, are trapped and safely removed from the blood.

We are there the moment you need us

Should you or a loved one ever face health challenges in critical care, you can rest assured you will receive the care you need, because your doctor and healthcare team have access to complementary medical technologies and expert knowledge that improves the standard of care.

 

We are there every day, right beside your healthcare team. We provide them with the latest expertise and leading-edge technologies so that you get the best possible treatment, with the goal of the best possible outcome.

Additional Information

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CytoSorb can help your doctor stabilize your organ systems

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