This doctor plans to perform a human head transplant this year
Sergio Canavero |
In April, 2015, 30-year-old Russian neurosurgeon professor Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed, saying he would volunteer to have his head removed and installed on another person's body.
This kind of sound strange and like a joke right. But to this neurosurgeon professor it is not a joke this mean his life work.
Earlier that year the Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero outlined the transplant technique he would intend to follow in the journal Surgical Neurology International, and said he planned to launch the project at the annual conference of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (AANOS) in the US in June, where he will invite other researchers to join him in this work.
He claimed success operation animals like mice and monkeys.
Sergio Canavero ones had a human subject who volunteers his self for this full head grafting (Transplantation). He is a Russian name Valery Spiridonov. But he later back out of this operation after he had a son with his wife Anastasia.
This Doctor Sergio Canavero is now continues his life work in China, as the medical communities in the United States and Europe would not permit him to do it in there.
Recently Xiaoping Ren and Sergio Canavero said the new work they published in a scientific journal add evidence to their ability to treat "irreversible" spinal-cord injuries and a related controversial aspiration to perform the world's first human head transplant.
How does the Head Transplantation process works
How Does Canavero’s Human Head Transplant Procedure Work?
Canavero outlines the procedure in detail here, but these are the basics of the process.REMEMBER : DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME ESPECIALLY CHILDREN
The donor body and the head to be attached are first cooled down to 12-15˚C to ensure that the cells last longer than a few minutes without oxygen. The tissue around the neck is then cut, with the major blood vessels linked with tiny tubes. The spinal cord on each party is then severed cleanly with an extremely sharp blade.
"Post-coma, Canavero believes the patient would immediately be able to move, feel their face and even speak with the same voice."
At this point, the head is ready to be moved, and the two ends of the spinal cord are fused using a chemical called polyethylene glycol(PEG), encouraging the cells to mesh. This chemical has been shown to prompt the growth of spinal cord nerves in animals, although Canavero suggests that introducing stem cells or olfactory ensheathing cells into the spinal cord could also be tried.
After the muscles and blood supply are successfully connected, the patient is kept in a coma for a month to limit movement of the newly fused neck, while electrodes stimulate the spinal cord to strengthen its new connections.
Following the coma, Canavero anticipates that the patient would immediately be able to move, feel their face and even speak with the same voice. He believes physiotherapy would allow the patient to walk within a year.
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What are the Reaction of other Experts about this?
Despite claims of preclinical success by this surgeon, doctors, scientists, and medical ethicists say the science is not ready.Canavero has been met with consistent backlash from the scientific and medical communities since he first outlined plans for this procedure in the journal Surgical Neurology International in 2013, where he proposed reconnecting severed nerve cell membranes using polyethylene glycol (PEG).
Dr Hunt Batjer has attracted headlines for being particularly blunt: “I would not wish this on anyone. I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death.”
Dr Jerry Silver witnessed the 1970s monkey head transplant experiment – more on which later – and describes the procedure as “bad science”, adding that “just to do the experiments is unethical”.
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