30 year old man comes to the emergency department because of generalized weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, vommitting and diarrhea for 2 days.He works on farmland recently sprayed arsenic herbicides in the fields. Which of the following is the most appropriate chelation therapy for this patient?  (A) calcium disodium edetate (EDTA) (B) Deferoxamine '(C) Dimercaprol (D) Pentetic Acid (E) Trientine.

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(57) A 30 year old man comes to the emergency department because of generalized weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, vommitting and diarrhea for 2 days.He works on farmland recently sprayed arsenic herbicides in the fields. Which of the following is the most appropriate chelation therapy for this patient? 

(A) calcium disodium edetate (EDTA)

(B) Deferoxamine

'(C) Dimercaprol

(D) Pentetic Acid

(E) Trientine.

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