"Chelation Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Therapy of heavy metal poisoning using agents which sequester the metal from organs or tissues and bind it firmly within the ring structure of a new compound which can be eliminated from the body.
| Descriptor ID |
D015913
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.319.155
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| Concept/Terms |
Chelation Therapy- Chelation Therapy
- Therapy, Chelation
- Chelation Therapies
- Therapies, Chelation
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chelation Therapy" by people in Profiles.
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Successful treatment of potentially fatal heavy metal poisonings. J Emerg Med. 2007 Apr; 32(3):289-94.
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Combined exchange transfusion and chelation therapy for neonatal lead poisoning. Ann Pharmacother. 2004 May; 38(5):821-4.
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Acute pediatric lead poisoning: combined whole bowel irrigation, succimer therapy, and endoscopic removal of ingested lead pellets. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2002 Jun; 18(3):200-2.