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Elderly patients undergo Hemodialysis (a blood purifying treatment.) in the renal unit at St Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in Smithfield, The City of London, England. A female woman is in the background laying back in a comfortable armchair while in the foreground a man has his left arm resting on his knee with connecting tubes that feeds his blood by vascular access from the body into the dialyzer, a machine that filters the purified blood due to the patient's renal (kidney) failure. It is a bright room and many other machines are operating in this manner. Three quarters of the UK's 19,000 dialysis patients receive haemodialysis rather than peritoneal dialysis, where a sterile solution containing minerals and glucose is run through a tube straight into the intestine.

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Elderly patients undergo Hemodialysis (a blood purifying treatment.) in the renal unit at St Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in Smithfield, The City of London, England. A female woman is in the background laying back in a comfortable armchair while in the foreground a man has his left arm resting on his knee with connecting tubes that feeds his blood by vascular access from the body into the dialyzer, a machine that filters the purified blood due to the patient's renal (kidney) failure. It is a bright room and many other machines are operating in this manner. Three quarters of the UK's 19,000 dialysis patients receive haemodialysis rather than peritoneal dialysis, where a sterile solution containing minerals and glucose is run through a tube straight into the intestine.