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Blood circulates through your kidneys every minutes. Each day, your kidneys cleanse 180 of blood. The kidneys release the wastes as . Water and products can collect in the blood of damaged or diseased kidneys. This causes life-threatening . A kidney machine eliminates wastes by artificially the blood. In this process, called , blood circulates through a machine functioning as the patient’s kidney. The treatment applies the process of diffusion, which occurs when move from higher to lower concentration. This occurs because the concentration of waste in the cleansing solution is than that of the blood. Cleansed blood is to the patient.