Instead of a dialyzer, peritoneal dialysis uses the lining of your abdomen ... The filtering process involves passing a sterile cleansing fluid into the catheter over 30 to 40 minutes.

During this dwell time, waste products and excess fluids pass from the blood into the dialysis solution. The fluid is then drained and replaced with fresh solution, repeating the cycle.

LAS VEGAS — Education and training can encourage home dialysis uptake for pediatric patients and enable more successful ...

As a dialysis technician, I work closely with a team of doctors, nurses, social workers and dietitians to provide specialized ...

Anthony Davis, president of Livingstone College in Salisbury, talks about his decision to announce that he needs a kidney ...

but peritoneal dialysis, which involves him being hooked up to a machine that aids the filtration of his blood inside his stomach for 9-1/2 hours a night. Dialysis fluid fills his abdomen ...

It was a poignant moment when Stefan Whelan from Newbawn, Co Wexford, got into the sea at Baginbun on Sunday, May 4. Stefan along with 35 others sea swam one kilometre at Baginbun Beach, to highlight ...

There are two types: hemodialysis (machine-based) and peritoneal dialysis (using the lining of ... They help regulate blood pressure by controlling fluid balance and releasing hormones like ...

removes excess fluid and uremic toxins (Himmelfarb et al., 2020). In 2022, the Chinese National Renal Data System included 985,000 patients on dialysis in China, with 844,000 on hemodialysis (85.7%) ...