The world's first human head transplant is scheduled to take place in December 2017!
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been planning this for 30 years. It will be conducted on a Russian terminally ill patient Valery Spiridonov who suffers from a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. The operation will involve cooling his head to around 5 degrees F and reconnecting it to the body of a brain-dead body person.
Spinal cord nerves from the recipient's head and the donor's body are then fused together using polyethylene glycol. The surgery is expected to cost about $11 million and will last 36 hours. It will also involve over 150 doctors and nurses.
Italian neurosurgeon, Dr Sergio Canavero, believes he can successfully perform the world's first human head transplant in 2017. Within the medical establishment there is concern and scepticism-but either way the operation is set to be one of the big talking points of the year ahead.
Chinese surgeon Ren Xiaoping and Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero confirmed that they will likely perform the procedure at Harbin Medical University in China along with a Chinese-Italian team. Read more here: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/09/14/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-scheduled-for-2017