Can blood dialysis reduce cholesterol?

You mean Hemodialysis? No. Hemodialysis is a way to treat advanced kidney failure. Dialysis performs two functions - removing excess waste and balancing fluid levels in the body. read more

Blood cells are too big to pass through the dialysis membrane, but wastes and water can travel across it into the dialysis solution. Diffusion is complete. Body wastes have diffused through the membrane. There are equal amounts of waste in the blood and the dialysis solution. Wastes are removed by removing the dialysis fluid. read more

Once every two weeks, a patient spends two to four hours connected to an apheresis unit that removes 70-to-80 percent of the patient's LDL (bad) cholesterol, then returns the blood to the body. The good HDL cholesterol is not removed. read more