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  2. Home hemodialysis - Wikipedia

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    Home hemodialysis (HHD) is the provision of hemodialysis to purify the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally, in their own home. One advantage to doing dialysis at home is that it can be done more frequently and slowly, which reduces the "washed out" feeling and other symptoms caused by rapid ultrafiltration, and it can often be done at night, while the person is sleeping.

  3. At-home dialysis funded after hospital issues - AOL

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    Dialysis machines are to be fitted in the homes of patients [BBC] At-home treatment now includes energy costs, and there is funding for 25 machines to be used across the region.

  4. Kidney dialysis - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of semipermeable membrane during hemodialysis, where blood is red, dialysing fluid is blue, and the membrane is yellow. Kidney dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, dialysis, 'dissolution'; from διά, dia, 'through', and λύσις, lysis, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer ...

  5. Peritoneal dialysis - Wikipedia

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    After 6 months of intermittent dialysis, she declines further treatment due to complications and dies in June 1960. [39] 1964–1965 – Henry Tenckhoff, G. Shilipetar and Fred Boen of the University of Washington report the first case of home peritoneal dialysis, with long-term success despite technical difficulties and a burdensome process ...

  6. The Fight to Free Kidney Dialysis Patients From Their Bulky ...

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    By the end of the 1960s, engineers had developed two machines, nicknamed the Monster and the Mini-Monster, that were used in the first home dialysis treatment and formed the basis of many of the ...

  7. Hemodialysis - Wikipedia

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    Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.

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