Why can you have kidney dialysis but not liver dialysis?
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They do phlebotomies for liver problems, a quart of blood is removed and your body makes new blood, dialysis removes the urea and puts the blood back. I’m not exactly sure about the difference but my father had Hep-C and his liver didn’t filter out iron and his blood was basically poisoning him, they didn’t have the technology to remove the iron from his blood stream other than just removing some blood once a month via phlebotomy. Dialysis works more like the machine they use to spin plasma out of blood when people donate but it removes what would otherwise become urine and the blood goes back into your body.
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