Your treatment options
There are two main types of home dialysis:
- Home hemodialysis
- Home hemodialysis uses a dialysis machine to clean the blood. The patient's blood flows from his or her vascular access through a dialysis machine to be cleansed of extra waste and fluids and sent back into the body.
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Peritoneal dialysis uses the thin membrane, called the peritoneum, which lines the abdomen to perform dialysis treatments. A cleansing fluid is put into the patient's abdomen through a small, flexible tube called a PD catheter.
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