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A Clinical Review

Dominic J. Balestra, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1991;151(9):1718-1720.

Abstract
A stained-glass artisan with depression and a retired junkyard worker with congestive cardiomyopathy had increased mobilizable body burdens of lead by calcium ethylenediaminetetaacetic acid testing. Although both patients improved with several months of intramuscular chelation therapy, the efficacy of such therapy in chronic lead poisoning is controversial. Recognition of unusual manifestations of chronic lead poisoning may at least interrupt further exposure, even if specific therapy is not undertaken.

(Arch Intern Med. 1991;151:1718-1720)

Author Affiliations
From the Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center, White River Junction, Vt, and the Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 29, 1991.

Reprints not available.

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