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Head Transplants? Why? Now?
Twins in WW1 and WW2
genetics experiment?
Brain Transplants is suspect.
which means that there is the potential of the
large nerves being healed.
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Nicky Molloy wrote:
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> http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws03005.html?10
> 58210
> August 29 1999 BRITAIN
>
> �
>
> A life on hold: Christopher Reeve has shown interest in the new transplant
> research
> Photograph: Joe Traver
>
> Head transplants give paralysed new hope
> Jonathan Leake
> Science Editor
>
> A LEADING brain surgeon has unveiled plans to perform the first human head
> transplant. The operation, already carried out successfully on dogs and
> monkeys, would initially cost �800,000.
> Among those who could benefit are quadriplegics with conditions similar to
> that of Christopher Reeve, the Superman actor paralysed after a fall from a
> horse. The operation may also appeal to rich people with terminal illnesses.
>
> The technique for transplanting heads was proven in principle with small
> mammals in the early 1990s. However, it was abandoned when scientists
> realised that the extra time needed to reconnect larger human arteries and
> muscles would deprive the brain of oxygen and cause tissue damage.
>
> Last week it was claimed that this obstacle has finally been overcome.
> Robert J White, an American neurosurgeon, said he had developed a
> blood-cooling system that meant a living head could be disconnected from its
> blood supply for up to an hour without ill-effect.
>
> White and his team, based at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, claim
> they have already practised the techniques on corpses retained for medical
> research at the American hospital where he works.
>
> The White machine cools the brain from 37C to 10C. "This slows the
> metabolism and allows plenty of time to reconnect a head to its new body.
> All we are waiting for now is the money and the patients," White said last
> week.
>
> White has carried out more than 10,000 brain operations on humans. His work
> on monkeys, which started over 20 years ago, culminated in the full head
> transplants.
>
> The animals survived for more than a week with no impairment of mental
> faculties before they were put down, for humane reasons.
>
> Head or brain transplants have long been seen as the holy grail for
> neurosurgery. In theory, they offer the nearest anyone could get to
> immortality.
>
> In reality, however, White's technique would initially have a more limited
> application. Despite many recent advances, surgeons still cannot reconnect
> or regrow severed spinal nerves. This means that, like the monkeys, anyone
> who underwent a head transplant would be paralysed from the neck down.
>
> It also means that the first candidates for such surgery would probably be
> people, like Reeve, who had already been paralysed. Quadriplegics often die
> prematurely from multiple organ failure. Transplanting their head to a new
> body could, however, give them the chance of a normal lifespan.
>
> White believes that, although the idea might shock the able-bodied, many
> quadriplegics would welcome it. "It would be hard to deny them that chance
> through squeamishness when we are already transplanting lungs, hearts and
> livers," he said.
>
> Most of the subsequent demand for head transplants would, however, almost
> certainly come from a group presenting far greater ethical problems -
> elderly or dying millionaires with enough money to pay for the operation and
> the years of aftercare.
>
> The operational procedure, described by White in a paper published last
> week, would involve two teams of surgeons. Deep incisions would be made
> around the necks to expose the six major blood vessels and the spine. The
> next step would be to cool the head by connecting it to White's new cerebral
> perfusion machine. Initially this would carry blood from the original body
> but, as the operation progressed, a second set of tubes from the machine
> would be hooked up to blood vessels of the recipient body.
>
> Then, taps would switch off the head's blood supply from the original body
> and replace it with blood from the new body.
>
> At this point the head would be detached, by severing the spinal cord, and
> then attached to the new body. Such procedures could mean halting the blood
> supply but the brain's low temperature would minimise the risk of damage.
> Then the blood vessels, muscles and skin could be sewn together using
> standard surgical techniques.
>
> Reeve, who has set up a foundation to promote research into the causes of
> paralysis and potential cures, is understood to have taken a close interest
> in White's research.
>
> White refused to reveal his future clients but was confident many would come
> forward. He said: "The Frankenstein legend, where a human being is
> constructed by sewing parts together, will become a reality early in the
> 21st century."
>
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