Nephrology and Renal Care

Dialysis

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The process of removing waste products, excess water, toxins, and solutes from the blood in people whose kidneys no longer function naturally is called dialysis. Dialysis involves diverting blood to be cleaned. Haemodialysis dialysis and peritoneal dialysis are two types of dialysis. Haemodialysis, the most common type of dialysis procedure where a tube is attached to a needle in your arm and the blood passes along the tube, and external machine filters the blood before it is passed back into the arm along another tube. The peritoneal dialysis process on the other side uses the inside lining of your abdomen (the peritoneum) as the filter, instead of a machine. The peritoneum contains thousands of tiny blood vessels, making it a useful filtering device just like the kidneys. Dialysis treatment can be stopped if the kidney disease is temporary and the patients get recovered.

Related associations and societies: International Society of Nephrology (ISN), American Society of Nephrology (ASN), UK Kidney Association (UKKA), Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN), Hong Kong Society of Nephrology (HKSN), California Dialysis Council (CDC), International Society for Hemodialysis (ISHD), American Society of Transplantation (AST), Saudi Society of Nephrology and Transplantation (SSN&T), Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN), Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN), National Kidney Foundation (NKF)