First head transplant patient schedules surgery for December 2017

Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov, suffering from Werdnig Hoffman’s disease, has volunteered for the world’s first head-to-body transplant.
A man set to become the world’s first head transplant patient has scheduled the procedure for December 2017.

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First head transplant patient schedules surgery for December 2017

World’s first head transplant volunteer Valery Spiridonov could experience something "worse than death” - Surgeon

A man who volunteered to have his entire head put on a new body faces a fate worse than death, an expert has warned, while the surgeon set to do it has been described as ‘nuts’.

Last week, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed. Val, who’s paralyzed from waist down, says he wants his head removed from his non-functioning body and installed on another person’s able body.

He volunteered himself as a guinea pic after Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero said head transplant was possible and outlined the transplant technique he intends to follow. But now a top surgeon said Val will experience a death worse than death is he goes ahead with this…

“A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can’t really blame him, but while he is prepared for the possibility that the body will reject his head and he will die, his fate could be considerably worse than death.”

“I would not wish this on anyone,” said Dr Hunt Batjer, president elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons. “I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death.”

Even if the transplant succeeds which is unlikely, several medical experts say the world does not even know it will do to Val’s mind.

“There’s no telling what the transplant – and all the new connections and foreign chemicals that his head and brain will have to suddenly deal with – will do to Spiridonov’s psyche. It could result in a hitherto never experienced level and quality of insanity”. – the surgeon said

Watch Dr Canavero explain the procedure:

Watch volunteer Valery Spiridonov talk about why he is willing to take part:

 

Source: UK Metro/Organichealth

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World’s first head transplant volunteer Valery Spiridonov could experience something "worse than death” - Surgeon