ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -In hemodialysis, a machine filters wastes, salts and fluid from your blood when your kidneys are no longer healthy enough to do this work adequately. Hemodialysis (he-moe-die-AL-uh-sis) is one way to treat advanced kidney failure and can help you carry on an active life despite failing kidneys.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hemodialysis uses a machine to pull blood out of the body, filter it, and pump the clean blood back into the body again. The actual filtering happens in a part of the machine called a dialyzer, or artificial kidney. The dialyzer has two parts.

Detailed explanation-3: -With hemodialysis, a machine removes blood from your body, filters it through a dialyzer (artificial kidney) and returns the cleaned blood to your body. This 3-to 5-hour process may take place in a hospital or a dialysis center three times a week. You can also do hemodialysis at home.

Detailed explanation-4: -Haemodialysis is a procedure of removing urea from the blood of patients affected by uremia and kidney failure. It is called artificial kidney because it replaces the function of the kidney i.e. removing urea from the blood.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hemodialysis. Hemodialysis uses a machine called a hemodialyzer to filter waste from the blood. Peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis requires surgical placement of an abdominal catheter. Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)