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Neurosurgeon details plan for first human head transplant in two years
John Racovali, National Post | February 26, 2015 | Last Updated:Feb 26 12:28 PM ET
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East NewsItalian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero says the technology now exists to transplant a human head from one body to another — and the first procedure will be possible in two years.
An Italian neurosurgeon says it is possible to transplant human heads from one body to another to extend the lives of people whose muscles and nerves have deteriorated or whose organs are riddled with cancer.
Sergio Canavero said several people have already volunteered for a head transplant — which he says he could perform in 2017 — after he tests the procedure with brain-dead organ donors.
Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, detailed the surgery in the journal Surgical Neurology International earlier this month.
“The greatest technical hurdle to [a head transplant] is of course the reconnection of the donor’s and recipient’s spinal cords,” he said in the paper. “It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage.”
Gail Burton / AP PhotoPrecurssors to the first head transplant may be face transplants such as the one detailed by Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez on Richard Lee Norris, pictured at left, on March 27, 2012 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
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