It involves the injection of EDTA, or ethylendiamine tetra acetic acid, in patients who have hardening of the arteries. Advocates say EDTA binds to calcium and removes it from the bloodstream, unclogging vessels in the heart and brain. They say the therapy has helped patients for decades. Janson said he personally had performed chelation therapy on 500 to 1,000 patients in the last 18 years. I've been very impressed with it.
Conventional doctors consider it quackery - until they start doing chelation.
Fla. Wyse said his study involved too few subjects to judge that chelation therapy caused harm, and endorsed the idea of a larger study to look into the issue. Inc. All rights reserved. Learn more about heart failure at the Penn Cardiac Care's heart failure web site .