The first head transplant surgery in history

That is a very controversial method, many doctors believe that the implementation of spinal cord transplantation is not impossible to mention transplanting a human head into a new body.

Valery Spiridonov is a 30-year-old Russian computer engineer . From birth, Valery had a rare disease of Werdnig-Hoffman muscular dystrophy, which caused him to sit in a wheelchair from a baby and could not function as normal people.

But a group of surgeons headed by Dr. Sergio Canavero opened the door of hope to help Valery own a perfectly healthy body. That is a very controversial method, grafting heads.Dr. Sergio stated that he could remove the head and transplant into another healthy body.

Valery Spiridonov suffers from congenital Werdnig-Hoffman muscular dystrophy, making him almost paralyzed.

Valery also accepted the opportunity to have a healthy body by this special method . He said that he really wanted to be able to walk like normal people before he died.

Dr. Sergio Canavero is currently in Italy, he just talked to Valery via Skype. However Valery believes in this method, he said that this is probably his only chance to have a normal body, Valery's disease situation is gradually turning bad since last year. Meanwhile, Dr. Sergio also said that with current technologies and techniques it is possible to perform a head graft surgery.

Dr. Sergio Canavero once gave a speech about his graft surgery, but many opposed it and thought it was impossible.

Meanwhile, people in the medical world think that this method is extremely crazy . Although a monkey head graft surgery was done 45 years ago, there was also a head transplant on the mouse recently conducted in China. But a similar surgery on people is far beyond the imagination of doctors in the present time. Dr. Hunt Batjer, president of the American Association of Neurosurgical Surgeons: ' I will not let anyone do that, for me this method is worse than death'.

Valery's new body is donated from a brain-dead person . In this surgery, both the transplant and the donor will have to remove their head starting from the spinal cord. After that, Dr. Sergio will use a chemical he called a 'magic ingredient', in fact it is a polyethylene glycol glue used to connect the two spinal ends between the grafted head and the donor body. .

Blood vessels and nerves will also be joined together . Then the patient will be placed in a coma for 4 weeks, to help the parts have time to recover. A very strong inhibitor drug will be used so that the body's immune system does not excrete new parts.

Head graft surgery is complex and contains many risks, doctors around the world are opposed to this method.

Many people believe that Dr. Sergio has too simplified the spinal cord transplant of two different people, because many problems can arise during and after surgery. However, both Dr. Sergio and Valery believed in this surgery . Valery also said that his family is very supportive.

It was Valery who contacted Dr. Sergio two years ago, after stumbling upon his research on the head graft method. After that, the two exchanged with each other by email and Skype, never met before.

There has never been a successful transplant surgery in the history of medicine, even in animals. In 1970, Dr. Robert White conducted a monkey head graft surgery on another monkey's body at Case Western Reserve Medical University. However, the monkey after the head transplant surgery died because the body's immune system removed itself from the grafted head. Before that, the monkey could not move as well as breathing itself because the spinal cord transplant did not work, making the entire body part inactive.

Dr. Robert White's note with a head graft surgery on monkeys in 1970.

Experts say that Dr. Robert's record of early transplant surgery does not help with a future transplant.The transplant of the spinal cord between two separate individuals is extremely difficult and has never been done before.

However, Valery's first graft surgery will be performed next year , if there is no problem. It is expected that Dr. Sergio will conduct a 36-hour surgery and the cost of this entire operation is up to 11 million USD. This money will be funded by Dr. Sergio's research fund. If this surgery is done successfully, Dr. Sergio will change modern medicine.

Only about 3 or 4 months left, the first human head transplant in the world will be conducted. The whole world was anxiously waiting, hope and sarcasm also existed.

1. In just over 3 months, the first graft surgery will take place