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 is a treatment to filter wastes and water from your blood, as your kidneys did when they were healthy.

Detailed explanation-3: -“This device will allow patients to become much freer and more able to take more charge of their life and not focus as much psychologically on their treatment that currently takes over their lives.” Current clinical approaches to kidney failure include hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation.

Detailed explanation-4: -One needle will slowly remove blood and transfer it to a machine called a dialyser or dialysis machine.

Detailed explanation-5: -An artificial kidney is a device to remove nitrogenous waste products from the blood through dialysis. Artificial kidneys contain a number of tubes with a semi-permeable lining, suspended in a tank filled with dialysing fluid.