Head Transplant!!

First Head Transplant Patient Schedules Surgery for 2017!!!!

Donor body will be attached to recipient's head through spinal cord

fusion!!!!!!

A man set to become the world’s first head transplant patient, has scheduled

the procedure for December 2017.

Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist,volunteered for the

procedure despite the risks involved. He was diagnosed with

a genetic muscle-wasting condition called Werdnig-Hoffmann disease,.

also referred to as type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The condition is

caused by the loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and the brain region

connected to the spinal cord. Individuals with the disease are unable to walk

and are often unable to sit unaided.

His words "I can hardly control my body now," he said. "I need help every

day, every minute. I am now 30 years old, although people rarely live to

more than 20 with this disease.

Spiridonov was diagnosed with Werdnig-Hoffman disease at the age of 1

and he wants the chance of a new body before he dies.

The procedure - which is estimated to take 100 surgeons around 36 hours to

complete - will involve spinal cord fusion (SCF). The head from a donor body

will be removed using an "ultra-sharp blade" in order to limit the amount of

damage the spinal cord sustains.

It will require Spiridonov’s head be cooled as well as the donor’s body to

extend the period during which the cells can survive without oxygen..