Dialysis-Homeostasis:

 The process of removing waste products and excess fluid from the body. Dialysis is necessary when the kidneys are not able to adequately filter the blood. Dialysis allows patients with kidney failure a chance to live productive lives.

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Types of Dialysis:

1-Hemo Dialysis

2-Peritoneal Dialysis

Hemo Dialysis:

The blood circulates outside the body of the patient - it goes through a machine that has special filters. The blood comes out of the patient through a catheter (a flexible tube) that is inserted into the vein. The filters do what the kidney's do; they filter out the waste products from the blood. The filtered blood then returns to the patient via another catheter. The patient is, in effect, connected to a kind of artificial 

kidney. Hemodialysis usually lasts about 3 to 4 hours each week
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Peritoneal Dialysis:

 In this type of dialysis peritoneal cavity is included.Peritoneal sterile (dialysate) A sterile (dialysate) solution rich in minerals and glucose is run through a tube into the peritoneal cavity, the abdominal body cavity around the intestine, where the peritoneal membrane acts as a semi-permeable membrane.