Posted on 02/27/2015 1:49:52 PM PST by Citizen Zed
According to Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, from the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, the Frankenstein-style procedure to graft a living person's head on to a donor body will soon be available.
The surgery is intended to help extend the lives of people who have suffered degeneration of the muscles and nerves or those who have advanced cancer.
Canavero plans to announce the project at the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in June. The doctor published a paper on the technique that he will use in the Surgical Neurology International journal this month.
In the procedure, the recipient's head and the donor body would be cooled at the start of the procedure to extend the time that cells can survive without oxygen.
Tissue around the neck would be dissected and major blood vessels would be joined using tiny tubes.
The spinal cords would be severed and the recipient's head moved on to the donor body. The ends of the spinal cord would then fuse together with a chemical called polyethylene glycol, which encourages fat within cell membranes to mesh.
The person would be put into a medically induced coma for around four weeks to prevent them moving while they heal.
Canavero said he would expect the patient to be able to move and feel their face when they awoke, they would speak with the same voice. They would be able to walk within a year.
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Spinal cord breaks are always crippling, and can’t be repaired, but they’re going to graft a new head onto a body and reattach it so everything works? Am I missing something?
Regressive liberals are about to reveal a new commercial application for the unborn.
I’m with you Jim. If they can fuse a spinal cord and make it work, why can’t they fix ones now?
I had a facial nerve cut and reattached. Most function came back but not all the way. That was one nerve. I don’t think the docs can do a spinal nerve cord connection where every thing works.
Where are they going to get an otherwise healthy body for the transplant? Is this part of the ‘Jobs for Jihadists’ program?
Yep....
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