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- Chelation therapy for heart disease: Does it work? - Mayo Clinic
Can chelation therapy treat heart disease? Chelation therapy doesn't seem to be an effective treatment for heart disease Chelation therapy has long been used as a treatment for mercury and lead poisoning And in the past, some people received chelation therapy to treat heart disease and stroke But it isn't a proven treatment for these conditions
- Terapia de quelación para las enfermedades del corazón: ¿funciona?
Pero investigaciones recientes sugieren lo contrario Esto es lo que se sabe hasta ahora: El Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (Ensayo para evaluar la terapia de quelación) (TACT, por sus siglas en inglés) no proporcionó pruebas suficientes para apoyar el uso sistemático de este tratamiento para enfermedades cardíacas
- Lead poisoning - Diagnosis treatment - Mayo Clinic
Chelation therapy In this treatment, a medication given by mouth binds with the lead so that it's excreted in urine Chelation therapy might be recommended for children with a blood level of 45 mcg dL or greater and adults with high blood levels of lead or symptoms of lead poisoning ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) chelation therapy
- Wilsons disease - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
Diagnosing Wilson's disease can be hard because its symptoms often are like other liver diseases, such as hepatitis Also, symptoms can occur over time Changes in behavior that come on gradually can be especially hard to link to Wilson's disease Doctors rely on symptoms and test results to make the diagnosis Tests and procedures used to diagnose Wilson's disease include:
- Hemochromatosis - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
The medicine binds excess iron, allowing the body to expel iron through urine or stool in a process that's called chelation (KEE-lay-shun) Chelation is not commonly used in hemochromatosis
- Thalassemia - Symptoms causes - Mayo Clinic
Thalassemia (thal-uh-SEE-me-uh) is a blood disorder It's inherited, which means it's passed from parents to children through genes Genes carry information that can affect many things, including what people look like and whether they might have certain diseases Thalassemia causes the body to have less of the protein hemoglobin than usual Hemoglobin is present in red blood cells and allows
- Thalassemia - Diagnosis treatment - Mayo Clinic
Chelation therapy This treatment removes extra iron from the blood Iron can build up due to regular transfusions Some people with thalassemia who don't have regular transfusions also can develop excess iron Removing the excess iron is vital for your health To help rid your body of the extra iron, you might need to take medicine by mouth
- Coronary artery disease - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
Coronary artery disease FAQs Mayo Clinic cardiologist Stephen Kopecky, M D , answers the most frequently asked questions about coronary artery disease (CAD)
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