Canavero does not anticipate a 100% recovery for Valery, but sees this first operation as a stepping stone to better method and eventual use of clones to offset the rejection of the donor body. In 2008, a breakthrough in technique may make anti-rejection drugs less necessary as the marrow of the donor is used to “seed” the transplanted body part, in this case, an airway. The first human heart transplant lived 18 days, succumbing from pneumonia. The first human transplant involved a kidney from an identical twin. The viability of the transplant is also in question. Even grafting the head from one dancer to another will not instantly bring the life back to the steps of once controlled by the brain until extensive training is undertaken if and only if more than gross motor skills are recovered. The brain remembers, but the body is untrained. Grafting the head of a dancer onto a non-dancer will not allow the body to dance automatically. Just as a touch typist does not have to look at the keyboard or a dancer does not have to consciously measure the extension of steps so too have most people have “muscle memory” of the most common acts they perform. Repeated physical activity trains the muscles to act under certain conditions. Muscles also have a type of memory response. Immune reaction aside, there are also serious questions about the ability of one brain to control the body of another. These animal transplants helped to pave the way for the human transplants we have today which prolong and improve life for humans. The donor and recipient rejected each other. The common cause of death in the experiments were immune reactions. The puppy head also seemed to want to pull away, separate from the adult host. Gruesomely, the notes from experiment two notes that the one month old puppy grafted onto an adult German shepherd displayed an autonomous reaction to milk, water and nipped and was nipped in return by the host dog.
One such experiment had survivors of 29 days, though most subjects lasted only 1 to 6 days. In the 1950’s a Russian grafted up to 20 puppy heads onto an adult dog more than once. Head transplants have been performed on animals since 1908 when Charles Gutherie successfully attached the head of one dog to another dog’s neck. Nerve tissue regenerates slowly, about an inch a month, depending on the type of nerve and the damage to the nerve tissue.
Nerve grafts from a living donor necessitates immune-suppressant drugs for two years while other organs are a lifetime of the same drugs, leaving the recipient vulnerable to disease. The reconnection of severed body parts to people who lost them is tricky enough, but the transplant between a donor and a recipient of relatively simple organs, such as the heart, is fraught with complications from compatibility and rejection risks. Internet news agencies and blogs have posted items ranging from the incredulous to the ridiculous to the skeptical. Inquiries are redirected to the eventual use of clones. There has been no announcement on the donor body other than it will be healthy and brain dead. Anastomosis is the technical name for surgically connecting or splicing two parts of a body part or system.
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Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon will lead a team of 100+ in the surgical procedure code named “HEAVEN,” an acronym for HEad Anastomosis VENture. He volunteered for the honor as a possible means to overcome Werdnig-Hoffman disease, a rare condition that destroys the motor neurons in the spinal cord and lower brain and leaves the sufferers trapped in a body without the ability to walk or even sit unaided. In about two years, computer scientist Valery Spiridonov of Russia is expected to be the first human head transplant, bypassing the current need for Photoshop and the limitations of two-dimensional presentation of the popular photo editing software. “Steam Powered News, SCIFI.radio 04/11/15 – head transplant” from Stark Reality by Vagabond Tony Carter.