"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 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chelation Therapy" by people in Profiles.
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Brannan EH, Su S, Alverson BK. Elemental mercury poisoning presenting as hypertension in a young child. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Aug; 28(8):812-4.
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Jhanji V, Rapuano CJ, Vajpayee RB. Corneal calcific band keratopathy. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2011 Jul; 22(4):283-9.
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Greenberg PL, Rigsby CK, Stone RM, Deeg HJ, Gore SD, Millenson MM, Nimer SD, O'Donnell MR, Shami PJ, Kumar R. NCCN Task Force: Transfusion and iron overload in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2009 Dec 29; 7 Suppl 9:S1-16.
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Florin TA, Brent RL, Weitzman M. The need for vigilance: the persistence of lead poisoning in children. Pediatrics. 2005 Jun; 115(6):1767-8.
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Najjar DM, Cohen EJ, Rapuano CJ, Laibson PR. EDTA chelation for calcific band keratopathy: results and long-term follow-up. Am J Ophthalmol. 2004 Jun; 137(6):1056-64.
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Karimi M, Asadi-Pooya AA, Khademi B, Asadi-Pooya K, Yarmohammadi H. Evaluation of the incidence of sensorineural hearing loss in beta-thalassemia major patients under regular chelation therapy with desferrioxamine. Acta Haematol. 2002; 108(2):79-83.