Patient will be 30-year-old Russian Valery
Spiridonov, who suffers from Werdnig-
Hoffmann, a muscle-wasting disease. The operation would require a team of more than
100 medical workers and could take 36 hours to
complete

An Italian neurosurgeon has unveiled plans to
perform the first human head transplant by the
end of 2017.
Dr Sergio Canavero announced his plan at the
annual meeting of the American Academy of
Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons in the US
state of Maryland on Friday, saying he believes
he has a 90 percent chance of success.
He said his patient will be a 30-year-old Russian
man, Valery Spiridonov, who has the muscle-
wasting disease, Werdnig-Hoffmann.
"Of course there is a margin of risk, I cannot
deny that," Canavero said.
"I made the announcement only when I was
pretty sure I could do it."
Both men, who have been in regular contact
through video chats, believe the controversial
procedure is Spiridonov's best hope, the Reuters
news agency reported.
"If it goes good, I think I will get rid of the
limits which I have today and I will be more
independent and this will much improve my life,"
Spiridonov said.
"We are making a huge step forward in science
and I hope it will be OK."
Canavero is quick to point out that few with
Werdnig-Hoffmann disease reach adulthood.
"He is a brave man and he is in horrible
condition. You have to understand - for him,
Western medicine has nothing to offer. Western
medicine has failed."

Surgical team of 100
Canavero will need the support of his peers in
order to move forward on the operation which
could cost around $15m.
Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Raymond Dieter, a
former president of the International College Of
Surgeons, said one of the biggest concerns with
the procedure was keeping the brain alive during
the surgery.
"When you think you are doing a heart
transplant, or a kidney transplant, or a liver
transplant, you have to cool those organs to give
you a longer period of … surgical time before
you reconnect all the vessels and you start
reperfusion," Dieter said.
"We've seen several professors criticising Dr
Canavero's work but you know, there was
criticism for the first heart transplant as well
and now it's commonplace."
The operation, which would require a team of
more than 100 medical workers and could take 36
hours to complete, could take place in the US or
China.
Canavero plans to carry out the procedure in
December 2017.
"I prepared myself not only scientifically, but
also psychologically which is equally important in
order to tackle all of these attacks from several
fronts, in order to justify what you want to do,
why you want to do, you have to prepare
yourself," Canavero said.
"This is a frontier, the final frontier. It's not
space. This is it because it has implications that
go well beyond religion, culture, the future,
everything."


www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/neurosurgeon-attempt-world-head-transplant-150613072123910.html

Wahala don start be that o

Shekau will soon have Bin Laden's head

Who desires Obasanjo's head?

I pray he succeeds