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Chelation Therapy

I am 61 years old and had a major heart attack and triple by-pass 20 years ago.  I recently received a defibrilator because of my low ejection fraction.  However, my stress test results are excellent and I recently reached 15 METS.  I am taking Altace, Coreg, Zocor, and Niaspan.  My cholesteral is execllent.  Do you think I could benefit from chelation therapy?  What are the benefits and risks?
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I think claims where it has made improvements are more placebo. I have seen old people throw away walking aids after trial stem cell therapy, claiming they feel great, yet every single test shows their hearts to be exactly the same.
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This is correct, recent trials have found no reason to believe chelation therapy helps reduce plaques in the arteries. Most people that start chelation put off conventional treatment which can often prove fatal.
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I've had two relatives swear by Chelation therapy for their heart problems, the three of us all had heart attacks at about 60 years of age.  I miss them, they died within three years of starting Chelation treatments.  I accepted conventional and approved medications and treatments.  

From what I understand, Chelation can help remove heavy metals from the system, and mechanics, miners, etc can benefit.  However, it is extremely invasive and as stated above, studies have proven chelation treatment not only worthless for heart patients, but dangerous.  
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Apart from the fact that chelation therapy doesn't work anyway, I don't think it would have an effect on your defibrilator. What metal do you have in your system?
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I would like to know if having a defibrillator would prevent one from taking oral chelation? Being that the defibrillator is metal would it conflict with pulling metal from my system.
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    If having a lighter wallet is part of your heart therapy program, then chelation is for you.  The American Heart Association's position is as follows:  The American Heart Association has reviewed the available literature on using chelation (ke-LA'shun) (E.D.T.A., ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) to treat arteriosclerotic (ar-te"re-o-skleh-ROT'ik) heart disease.  We found no scientific evidence to demonstrate any benefit from this form of therapy.

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Overall Chelation is great, if some one is ready to provide it to you, normally doc'c deprive this system to patients, with less ejection fraction below 30 % weekly one time IV would be safe and permited or else you will have to go in to oral chelation tablets which are also great, just keep on using them according to your doctors advice it just cleans up clogged arteries ok nothing else thereby keeping your plumbing going and going. Thanks.
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