Does the Italian doctor propose a head transplant program, science fiction or technological development?

Canavillo said he would announce his head transplant program at a higher-level medical conference this summer-the first head transplant operation in 2017. William Mar Matthews, President of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic surgery, argues that two years is too hasty for the complex operation of a head transplant.

25th reported that the plan was proposed in Turin, Italy, the senior neuro-regulatory group, Sergio Canavillo expert in neurosurgery. He believes the transplant requires 100 surgeons to continue for 36 hours and spend 7.5 million pounds. The surgery is for patients who are paralyzed by spinal injury or suffering from severe muscular atrophy, such as the late "Superman" actor Reeve and physicist Hawking.
Canavillo said he would announce his head transplant program at a higher-level medical conference this summer-the first head transplant operation in 2017.

"The biggest technical obstacle (head transplant) is undoubtedly reconnecting the donor and the receptor of the spinal cord." I believe that the technology for this type of connection is now in place. Canavillo said in his paper.
In addition, Canavillo prepared a list of alternative patients, the location of the operation is inclined to London, England.
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Critics argue that Dr. Kanak's vision is too crazy to be "pure fantasy". But Karnak argues that the current medical technology is enough to support the entire operation, and that all he needs to do is integrate the technology.
According to the newly published New Scientist magazine, the first case of surgery was from a brain-death patient. The key to the operation is to cut off both the donor and the receptor's neck tissue and spine, and cleanly cut off the head and body.
Canavillo explained in the article that the bone marrow must be severed with a sharp scalpel and "mechanically connected" to other bodies. He further explained: "This clean and decisive cutting is the key to the fusion of bone marrow, which allows the proximal axon to fuse with the distal axon." ”