More info on SCT if interested

Here is a list of others who have gone thru a Stem Cell Transplant if you are interested in reading and viewing their process. Dr. Burt's team does SCT for more than 20 auto immune diseases and has been doing them for over 20 years. The following are just CIDP patients, like me:

 Jennifer Osman   (SCT April 2005) 1st one ever to do it for CIDP

her blog : http://www.caringbridge.org/il/jeno/

 http://www.frcblog.com/2010/02/a-neurological-save-with-adult-stem-cells/

http://www.medicine.northwestern.edu/10/mar/matter-life-and-death

Kevin Devery  (SCT Oct 2007)

great videos :

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kevinlj182&aq=f

  

 Jerry Burns  Phoenix AZ  (SCT Feb 2009) 

http://www.carepages.com/carepages/JerryBurns1954 

Tannia Munoz  (SCT June 2009)

great videos 

http://www.youtube.com/user/TanniaM3

 

Lynn Mac Donald  (SCT Sept 2009)

http://www.carepages.com/carepages/LynnMac

http://www.gbs-cidp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6461

 

Alice Dicroce  (SCT Oct 2009)

www.alicedicroce.com

www.facebook.com/cidpstemcelltransplant .

^^ you can find lots more info here about SCT and which diseases they are working on here

Rossana Roa  (SCT June 2010) 

http://rossanascidp.blogspot.com/

 

Jim Danhakl   (SCT March 2010)

Jim’s blog : http://www.alicedicroce.com/untitled-page.html

Sharon Mackwell  (SCT Sept 2010)

http://www.ntafund.org/find-a-patient/profile/news.cfm/patient/7D7541E0-DB02-CA07-6CA658BA46465C75

Robert Postel  (SCT May 2011) 

http://www.gofundme.com/Stem-Cell-Transplant-Pre-and-Post-Care

Here is a list of other auto immune diseases being treated by SCT:

- Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis)

- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chrohn's disease, ulcerative colitis)

- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

- Polymyositis - Dermatomyositis - Evans syndrome

- Hashimoto's thyroiditis

- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)

- Graves' disease

- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia

- Autoimmune blistering diseases

- Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome

- Myasthenia gravis

- Psoriatic arthritis

- Wegener's granulomatosis

- Sjögren's syndrome (Mikulicz disease, Sicca syndrome)

- Churg-Strauss syndrome

- Microscopic polyangiitis

- Relapsing polychondritis

- Pemphigus vulgaris

- Sarcoidosis

- Ankylosing spondylitis

- Diabetes mellitus type 1 (but only if HSCT is performed within several months following disease onset)

- Sickle Cell Disease can be cured with a similar HSCT procedure utilizing mixed chimerism with a partial-match HLA doner