Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero from Turin said that in two years will be ready to perform the transplant head. Their case will be defended in June at a conference of Neurological Surgeons and the American Orthopedic in Annapolis.
Transplant head – emphasizes Canavero – aims to help people with degeneration of the muscles and nerves or with advanced malignancies. Italy for the first time about the possibility of the graft said two years ago, but the experts have not treated the idea seriously. Is in June convince them to your ideas?
Canavero recently published a memoir, in which he presented the main objectives of the operation. The procedure should start cooling the head of the recipient and the donor’s body, which will extend the survival time of the oxygen-depleted cells.
The next step is to be crafted tissue around the neck and connect it with the blood vessels through tiny tubes. The next stage of the operation involves cutting the spinal cord and head transfer recipient to the donor’s body.
To connect the cell membrane lipids from the spinal cord ends of the donor and recipient Italian surgeon intends to use the poly (ethylene oxide).
After the end of the transplant recipient will be introduced in a coma for about four weeks. This is to prevent movement of the patient during the healing process.
According to the assumptions Canavero after this time, the patient will be awake from the coma had feeling in his face. The voice of the recipient does not change. Rehabilitation and learning to walk in a new body is to take a year.
The medical community skeptical about the idea Canavero. Head transplant also raises ethical issues. “Before you go to the moon, you must make sure that the people behind you will follow” – notes Canavero.
“If the public is opposed to, I will not be carried out the operation. But that idea did not find approval in the United States if Europe does not mean that it can not be practiced in other parts of the world “- but reserves the surgeon.
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