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In the next 10 months, as it became known, the first in human history transplantation of a human head. More precisely say, the patient is “transplanted” the body of the deceased donor. Operation will be held in China: Italian Sergio Canavero and Chinese Zhen Xiaoping – both famous neurosurgeons with vast experience.
In 2015, the first volunteer to this incredibly dangerous operation. He became the Russian computer developer Valery Spiridonov. Man paralyzed by spinal muscle atrophy, realizes that doctors have few chances of success, however, he is still ready to take a chance, hoping to get in the end workable body.
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However, it was worth the Russian declare his readiness to lie under scalpels Canavero and Xiaoping, as many Chinese were immediately found citizens who want to be transplanted to healthy bodies heads. Surgeons are currently determining where to start, however, it is reported that Spiridonov will certainly be operated on. If he is not the first such patient, then he will have more chances to survive, as doctors will have more experience.
It is reported that the patient is frozen to a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and they will separate his head from the body, immediately connecting it to heart-lung machine. Body part with brain transplanted to a pre-prepared corpse of a person who died shortly before that. For example, the body of the deceased traumatic brain injury, of which there are many cases.
All anatomical structures will be connected in series. The integrity of the spinal cord will be restored by processing its slices special biological “glue” – polyethylene glycol. To maintain the viability of nerve fibers, they will act with negative pressure and electricity. First weeks after surgery, if it is successful, the patient will spend in artificial coma. And there, how God sends …
