Russian Man With Spinal Cord Disease To Be First Recipient Of Human Head Transplant
Medical News Today has reported on one of the most bizarre surgeries to ever be conducted. It will take place on a 30-year-old Russian man with a muscle wasting disease. An Italian surgeon will conduct the world’s first head transplant operation on the Russian volunteer.
In a project named HEAVEN-GEMINI, Dr. Sergio Canavero, of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group (TANG) in Italy, with the help of over 100 surgeons, plans to cut off the head from a donor body and reattach the spinal cord and body to a Russian man, Mr. Spiridonov, who is suffering from Werdnig-Hoffman disease.
Spiridonov can hardly move on his own, and his condition usually causes mortality by the time a person is 20 years of age. It is possible that his advancing condition and its bleak outlook are his motivations for consenting to this extremely peculiar surgery.
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Medical News Today has reported on one of the most bizarre surgeries to ever be conducted. It will take place on a 30-year-old Russian man with a muscle wasting disease. An Italian surgeon will conduct the world’s first head transplant operation on the Russian volunteer.
In a project named HEAVEN-GEMINI, Dr. Sergio Canavero, of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group (TANG) in Italy, with the help of over 100 surgeons, plans to cut off the head from a donor body and reattach the spinal cord and body to a Russian man, Mr. Spiridonov, who is suffering from Werdnig-Hoffman disease.
Spiridonov can hardly move on his own, and his condition usually causes mortality by the time a person is 20 years of age. It is possible that his advancing condition and its bleak outlook are his motivations for consenting to this extremely peculiar surgery.
More http://bit.ly/1zUeb9J
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