Abstract
The report of Whitaker, Austin, and Nelson, "Edathamil Calcium Disodium (Versenate) Diagnostic Test for Lead Poisoning" (Pediatrics 29:384, 1962), comments upon the use of this agent and its mechanism of action in a manner which may lead to misapprehension concerning the potentialities of this agent. The authors state that this test is based upon the principle that "edathamil chelates lead in body stores, as well as circulating lead...." In view of our present knowledge concerning these sites of action of edathamil calcium disodium, it would appear that this is an overstatement of the efficacy of this agent in producing mobilization and subsquent excretion of the body burden of lead.
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