Sergio Canavero
The first ever transplant of a body are going to spend in Germany. Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero looking for in Germany the appropriate clinic, which will operate on a terminally ill Russian programmer Valery Spiridonov.
The doctor says that in Germany there are the necessary conditions for carrying out the most complex in the history of surgical practice operation, reports The Daily Star. While Canavero is looking for a suitable hospital. “I’d like to lead this ground-breaking transaction in Germany,” — said the surgeon.
According to Canavero, Germany for many centuries, setting the standards in medicine and technology. The doctor said that German technology is involved in the project body transplant Russian. “Mechanical structure that connects the spinal cord, made in Germany. So why this leap in the history of medicine to be held here?” — asks Canavero.
In 2013 Canavero estimates that transplantation of human body with the participation of 150 people for 36 hours will leave more than $ 20 million. The difficulty in conducting such procedures is that doctors will need to connect the nervous system, blood vessels and spinal cord, head and body, transplanted from the donor.
As reported by Dr Canavero, a patient’s brain will have cooled to 10-15 degrees Celsius, and then his head cut off and will sew with the donor body. The neurons of the spinal cord is supposed to gluing with biological glue, and their action is to stimulate a weak electrical current. The patient will have to lie in a medical coma for about a month.
In Russia, found a volunteer, ready to move risky procedure. 30-year-old programmer Valery Spiridonov suffers from a rare genetic disease — amyotrophy of Werding-Hoffmann in which don’t grow muscles and deformed skeleton. The disease is considered incurable.
