Abstract: A mesenchymal stem cell harvesting system and method for increasing the efficiency of collecting and processing physiological fluids containing mesenchymal stem cells from a cavity within a patient's skeletal system. Microenvironments risk in MSC production and concentration within a cavity, for example the patient's ilium, are penetrated with a pointed instrument used to create an aperture in the hard cortical bone forming the cavity followed by the insertion of an aspiration device which extracts one or more samples of cancellous bone, bone marrow, bone marrow blood and other aspirated material. The aspirate is rinsed and may be filtered to remove unwanted material and to increase the concentration and purity of the mesenchymal stem cells in the aspirant far beyond levels formerly obtainable for use in autologous treatment of the patient.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 22, 2018
Date of Patent:
May 23, 2023
Assignee:
Elite IP, LLC
Inventors:
Edward Jeffrey Donner, Christopher Thomas Donner, Ryan Dregalla, Lucanus Steven Koldewyn
Abstract: A system for collecting and processing a sample of an enriched population of mesenchymal stem cells in a matrix of body tissue in which the sample is separated into smaller segments to optimize the ability of the system to organize the stem cells into small working clusters with tissue. The tissue clusters are separated into optimized groupings for further processing and use in medical procedures.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 28, 2020
Publication date:
March 18, 2021
Applicant:
Elite IP, LLC
Inventors:
Edward Jeffrey Donner, Lucanus Steven Koldewyn, Christopher Thomas Donner, Ryan Dregalla, Kristopher Buchanan, William Buchanan, Robert Mitchell Clark