A RUSSIAN man who has a debilitating illness is
set to become the first person to undergo a
head transplant next December.
Valery Spiridonov, 30, suffers from Werdnig-
Hoffmann disease, a rare form of spinal
muscular atrophy.


Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero hopes to
operate on Valery Spiridonov in December 2017
Italian surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero, who will
carry out the £14 million experimental transplant,
is likely to take 36-hours and will involve over
150 doctors and nurses.
The controversial operation will involve cooling
his head to around 12 degrees Celsius, cutting it
from his body and connecting it to the donated
body of a brain-dead person.




After the surgery, Valery will be kept in a
medically-induced coma for three to four weeks
while doctors stimulate his spinal cord nerves to
reconnect and start functioning.
Valery said the doctor dubbed Dr Frankenstein,
will reveal more details about the op next month.




He told MailOnline: “If you want something to be
done, you need to participate in it. I do
understand the risks. There are many.
“We can’t even imagine what exactly can go
wrong. I’m afraid that I wouldn’t live long enough
to see it happen to someone else.”









Dr Sergio Canavero says human head transplant
will happen by end of 2017
But surgeons believe the opinion-dividing
procedure could cause Valery to go insane or
die.



“I would not wish this on anyone,” said Dr Hunt
Batjer, president elect of the American
Association for Neurological Surgeons.
“I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there
are a lot of things worse than death.”



Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at New
York University’s Langone Medical Centre
described Dr Canavero as “nuts”.



He believes that the bodies of head transplant
patients “would end up being overwhelmed with
different pathways and chemistry than they are
used to and they’d go crazy”.









The controversial operation will involve cooling
his head to around 12 degrees Celsius, cutting it
from his body and connecting it to the donated
body of a brain-dead person



‘I do understand the risks. There are many’
But Dr Canavero hit back at the criticism saying
Valery will not only live with his new body, but
will be able to walk within a year of the
operation.




He told New Scientist last year: “I would say we
have plenty of data to go on.
“It’s important that people stop thinking this is
impossible. This is absolutely possible and we’re
working towards it.”





The potentially ground-breaking treatment was
performed on a monkey in 1970.
The animal only lived for eight days after the
body rejected the new head, leaving the monkey
unable to breath and move.

Science!!!
Hope it works out, coz plenty people for niaja go need that head transplant.

Laughs,, whites and terrible jokes,, if this event turns out successful the next step would be creating a human.

Chai

austyn0:
Laughs,, whites and terrible jokes,, if this event turns out successful the next step would be creating a human.

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greenmonk:

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Lol.

white men with there trouble

greenmonk:

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China oya over to you for exportation of iron head protection to naija.

greenmonk:

O boy！ Head hunters go come plenty for naija oo. Better go tell welder for iron helmet with strong padlock ooo.
China oya over to you for exportation of iron head protection to naija.