By Dr. Avinash Ignatius, Sr. Nephrologist, DaVita Pune People with kidney disease may require dialysis: a treatment that replaces the kidney function by removing wastes and excess fluid from the body. During Hemodialysis, blood from the body is filtered through a man-made membrane called a dialyzer, or artificial kidney, and then the filtered blood is returned to the […]

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