He added an operation on a live human will take place ‘imminently’.
At a press conference in Vienna Prof Canavero, said:
The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done.
A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage and that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.
Dr Sergio Canavero has hoped to perform the world’s first head transplant on Russian Valery Spiridonov, previously announcing his plans in a presentation at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons in Annapolis in 2015.
However, earlier this year, 31-year-old Spiridonov, who suffers from a muscle-wasting disease, said he would no longer be volunteering for the ground-breaking operation, adding ‘a weight lifted off my chest’.
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