Kidney Failure & Renal Care

Dialysis

The process of dialysis involves solute diffusion and liquid ultrafiltration over a semi-permeable layer. A characteristic of compounds in water is diffusion. In water, chemicals frequently transition from a region of high fixation to one of low fixation. Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, the two main types of dialysis, remove wastes and water from the blood in different ways. Hemodialysis purges waste by passing blood through a dialyzer, an external filter with a semipermeable membrane that circulates blood outside the body. Generally speaking, there are five different types of dialysis, of which three are primary and two are secondary: Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, hemofiltration are primary types of dialysis and were as hemodiafiltration, and intestinal dialysis is minor type of dialysis.