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This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Alex Berrios arrives at the dialysis clinic ...

Dialysis is typically performed in a hospital or clinical dialysis center, where a patient’s blood is drawn through an access point, filtered through a dialysis machine, and then returned to the body.