Título: Everyday Miracles: Curing Multiple Sclerosis, Scleroderma, and Autoimmune Diseases by Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
Autor: Dr. Richard Burt
Sinopse: A life-changing treatment is conquering auto-immune disorders—why doesn’t anyone know about it?
Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Richard Burt began a journey to treat chronic autoimmune diseases as they’d never been treated before. Using a treatment originally developed for leukemia but modified to be more gentle—a one-time combination of immune targeting drugs followed by a transplant of the patient’s blood stem cells—he has documented the successful and often dramatic reversal of multiple sclerosis, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIPD), neuromyelitis optica, and Crohn’s disease.
After decades of study and randomized trials, his approach, which has been duplicated in other parts of the world, is finally being recognized as an effective means of reversing these “incurable” diseases. Some of his patients have been symptom-free for more than twenty years, and in this book Dr. Burt tells their stories alongside his own journey of developing and refining the treatment, known as hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for autoimmune disorders. “These patients are the heroes,” Dr. Burt has said. “Their bodies and spirits faced unrelenting disease, and yet they fight valiantly against the suffering and obstacles.”
What is HSCT? How does it work? What are the risks? Why aren’t more doctors talking about it? And why is it still out of reach for so many patients who could benefit from it? Dr. Burt answers these questions and many more. Written for the layperson, Everyday Miracles grants patients with autoimmune diseases and the people who love them insights into the revolutionary approach that could convert their life sentence into a one-time reversible illness.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Everyday Miracles: Curing Multiple Sclerosis, Scleroderma, and Autoimmune Diseases by Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant”, de Dr. Richard Burt, publicado pela editora Forefront Books, em 2023 e com 256 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Forefront Books
Páginas: 256
Ano: 2023-01-10
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Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1637631251
ISBN13: 9781637631256
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Forefront Books costumam apresentar narrativas que dialogam com temas contemporâneos e pessoais, muitas vezes a partir de relatos em primeira pessoa ou análises detalhadas. O catálogo sugere um interesse por histórias de superação, mudanças sociais e políticas, e trajetórias profissionais marcadas por desafios e transformações. O tom varia entre o didático e o reflexivo, com algumas obras adotando uma linguagem direta para desconstruir narrativas predominantes, enquanto outras exploram o humor e a intimidade familiar. Essa diversidade cria um contraste entre livros mais analíticos e outros que privilegiam o relato humano, aproximando o leitor de experiências concretas e debates atuais.
