"Chelation Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chelation Therapy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Chelation Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Chelation Therapy" by people in Profiles.
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The effect of chelation on bone Pb stores in Pb poisoned children. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2025 Sep; 35(5):709-714.
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Fertility and Pregnancy in Women with Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2023 04; 37(2):393-411.
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Comparison of the effects of calcium channel blockers plus iron chelation therapy versus chelation therapy only on iron overload in children and young adults with transfusion-dependent thalassemia: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 06; 69(6):e29564.
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Survival and complications in patients with haemoglobin E thalassaemia in Sri Lanka: a prospective, longitudinal cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 2022 01; 10(1):e134-e141.
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A complication risk score to evaluate clinical severity of thalassaemia syndromes. Br J Haematol. 2021 02; 192(3):626-633.
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Thalassemia: Common Clinical Queries in Management. Indian J Pediatr. 2020 01; 87(1):75-81.
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Haemochromatosis. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2018 04 05; 4:18016.
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Therapeutic recommendations in HFE hemochromatosis for p.Cys282Tyr (C282Y/C282Y) homozygous genotype. Hepatol Int. 2018 Mar; 12(2):83-86.
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Evaluating the potential of chelation therapy to prevent and treat gadolinium deposition from MRI contrast agents. Sci Rep. 2018 03 13; 8(1):4419.
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Prediction of cardiac complications for thalassemia major in the widespread cardiac magnetic resonance era: a prospective multicentre study by a multi-parametric approach. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 03 01; 19(3):299-309.