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Q&A with the First Human Set to Get a Head Transplant
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:05 pm
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With that 60-word email, Spiridonov, a Russian computer programmer and graphic artist, put himself on a path to become patient zero for the world’s first head transplant experiment, scheduled to take place in 2017 (though many in the medical profession are very skeptical that it will ever happen). Spiridonov has Werdnig-Hoffman disorder, an incurable muscle atrophy disease. Most people with his condition don’t make it past their 20th birthday; he knows he’s living on borrowed time. A full head transplant is, he believes, his only chance for long-term survival.
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Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:09 pm to blueboy
I just want to see how crazy he goes
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:10 pm to blueboy
He won't make it past the day of the head transplant.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:11 pm to blueboy
I thought this already happened.
Either way, this has been the 3rd thread on it that I have read on here.
Either way, this has been the 3rd thread on it that I have read on here.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:14 pm to blueboy
Yeah I don't see this working
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:15 pm to Pectus
Yeah I thought this had been posted before
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:16 pm to blueboy
It's really a body transplant
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:17 pm to blueboy
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he knows he’s living on borrowed time. A full head transplant is, he believes, his only chance for long-term survival.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:17 pm to blueboy
Hopeful the docs put their heads together to ensure a successful operation..
No telling where his life is headed afterwards
No telling where his life is headed afterwards
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:17 pm to lsucoonass
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:20 pm to Pectus
Still better than all of your threads. 
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:21 pm to lsucoonass
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Yeah I thought this had been posted before
I remember one of those. Someone was busting on another OT'er by saying he wanted to put his head on a dead hooker's body so he could play with his own boobs.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:22 pm to blueboy
Well that's one way to get ahead
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:28 pm to blueboy
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:42 pm to blueboy
You're right.
I need a good head on my shoulders to keep up with you.
I need a good head on my shoulders to keep up with you.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:52 pm to blueboy
He's just donating his body to science via assisted suicide, no chance this works
Posted on 7/2/16 at 8:58 pm to Tiger1242
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no chance this works
Probably not, but he and everyone involved with the procedure already know that. Nobody thought it was possible to transplant a heart but that is easily possible now. You gotta start somewhere, there is always a 100% chance of not succeeding if you never try.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 9:02 pm to VOLcano
Should have quit while he was ahead.
Posted on 7/2/16 at 9:02 pm to VOLcano
Won't he be paralyzed even if it does work? Or have they figured out a way to repair the spinal chord after they attach the head? If so, why can't that work on paralyzed people?
Posted on 7/2/16 at 9:31 pm to blueboy
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Won't he be paralyzed even if it does work? Or have they figured out a way to repair the spinal chord after they attach the head? If so, why can't that work on paralyzed people?
I wondered about that too and this is what I found:
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Next comes the most critical step of all. Under an operating microscope, doctors will cleanly chop through both spinal cords—with a $200,000 diamond nanoblade, so thin that it is measured in angstroms, provided by the University of Texas.
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The lengths of the transected spinal cord stumps will be adjusted so they’re even, and the myelinated axons, the spaghetti-like parts of nerve cells, will be fused using a special type of glue made of polyethylene glycol, an inorganic polymer that Canavero says is the procedure’s true magical elixir. In this way, spinal cord function will be established by enabling the cytoplasm of adjacent cells to mix together.
There was also a part of the article talking about the patient that correlates with my first post in this thread:
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Despite the thoroughness of the presentation at the Annapolis, Maryland, conference, Canavero and Spiridonov faced vitriol and doubt. Spiridonov fielded a question about the ethics of this surgery by asking if anyone would like to be in his shoes: needing assistance with defecation and urination and living a life without sex. A hush fell over the audience. The Russian said he would rather risk death in this experimental surgery to achieve a higher quality of life than suffer the burdens of his current existence. “If he is going to die,” Canavero said later, “he is the only one who can decide.”
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