For most people, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are equally ... places a catheter in your abdomen. The filtering process involves passing a sterile cleansing fluid into the catheter over ...

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is performed inside the patient’s abdomen rather than involving ... from the blood into the dialysis solution. The fluid is then drained and replaced with fresh solution ...

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 ...

The kidneys also make hormones to balance salt and fluid levels ... or to their abdominal cavity (peritoneal dialysis) at regular intervals to carry out the filtering function of the kidneys.

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