Italian doctor declares successful grafting on the body

The world's first human head transplant surgery performed on a body revealed the possibility of connecting to another body.

Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero , director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, claims his team successfully performed the first transplant on a body in China and is ready to proceed on a live, Independent body. yesterday reported. The person in charge of the operation is Chinese doctor Xiaoping Ren .

Dr. Sergio Canavero surprised the world by announcing the first human head transplant plan in 2015. (Photo: Petro Martinello).

Successful head graft surgery on the body reveals new techniques he developed to reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels that will work. This test also showed that the surgery could be completed in 18 hours as targeted by Canavero and his colleagues.

Canavero claimed he was in the process of "realizing the first human head graft surgery" . He became famous after many controversial statements about head implantation techniques. Canavero also said his first patient, a Russian man named Valery Spiridinov, agreed to freeze his head and transplant into a new body from the donor.

Valery Spiridonov, a patient with muscular atrophy volunteered to participate in the first first transplant.(Video: Telegraph) .

"We performed the first human head transplant on the corpse. The next step was to swap the whole head between two brain-dead organ donors. And that was the last step in the official graft surgery. Coming soon , " Canavero said at a conference in Vienne, Austria this morning.

The surgeon did not provide any proof for the statement, but he said he would soon provide evidence in the coming days."The first graft surgery has come true. The scientific report will be published in the next few days. Everyone says this is impossible. But the surgery was successful," Telegraph quoted. Canavero's words.

Earlier, Dr. Canavero and his colleague Ren attached the head of a small mouse to the larger mouse while maintaining the brain activity of the donor animal. He also conducted a similar experiment in dogs, in which the spinal cord of the animal was cut off, but the time the animal survived was not revealed. Last year, he announced the successful implementation of a graft on monkeys and animals that survived for 20 hours before being destroyed for moral reasons.

Head grafting method in mice.(Video: Next).

Dr. Canavero's head transplant plan provoked much controversy from other neurosurgeons."Experiments do not support the ability to conduct in humans," said Jerry Silver, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reverse University.

"I do not expect surgery to be done with anyone. I will not allow anyone to do it with me because there are many things worse than death," said Dr. Hunt Batjer, president of the Association. American Neurosurgery, affirmed.