Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109545

Medical Aids and Devices, ID 545

Design and 3D printing of miniaturized dialyzers for laboratory use

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Horst Krüsemann (Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Extracorporeal Therapy Systems, Rostock, Germany), Philip Töllner (Chair of Microfluidics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany), Erik Westphal (Chair of Microfluidics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany), Jacqueline Hofrichter (Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Extracorporeal Therapy Systems, Rostock, Germany), Hermann Seitz (Chair of Microfluidics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany)

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Abstract

The limiting factor of extracorporeal blood purification in preclinical testing is the large volume of blood required. For this reason, developing miniaturized devices for few milliliters of patient’s blood is the focus of this work. Clinical dialyzers are adapted to the sample volume by appropriate downscaling. The housings were created digitally, printed using polyjet technology and iteratively refined. A design was achieved that enables optimal potting results and homogeneous distribution of fibers within the dialyzer. Minia-turized housings with complex design and high resolution could be realized. Nevertheless, performance comparison to the clinical device is necessary for future laboratory application.

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Krüsemann, H., Töllner, P., Westphal, E., Hofrichter, J., & Seitz, H. (2021). Design and 3D printing of miniaturized dialyzers for laboratory use. Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 3(1), 545. https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109545

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