Chinese-Russian Medical Team Completes Possible First-Ever Spinal Cord Transplantation
The unconfirmed operation involved a brain-dead donor and a patient injured three years earlier, while researchers say no peer-reviewed outcomes have been reported.
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Neurosurgeon Ren Xiaoping, known for controversial projects on human head transplantation, participated in a 12-hour intervention in Moscow on the spinal cord. The operation, presented as a medical premiere, takes place in the context of Russia's allocation of nearly 18 billion rubles for medical technology development and longevity research.
Chinese-Russian Medical Team Completes Possible First-Ever Spinal Cord Transplantation
A Chinese-Russian surgical team has conducted a 12-hour operation in Moscow to replace a patient’s damaged spinal cord segment with donor tissue.Key facts:The surgery was performed on an adult with a complete spinal cord injury sustained from trauma...
China’s head transplant advocate completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia
Ren Xiaoping, who once vowed to perform the world’s first human head transplant, has operated on a patient’s severed spinal cord in a 12-hour landmark operation in Moscow, according to the Chinese surgeon and Russian state sources. Ren said the procedure was carried out at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine in Russia last week. “It was our Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital and the Russian t…
World-first spinal cord transplant claim raises questions we can't yet answer
Replacing damaged spinal cord with healthy donor tissue sounds like a straightforward solution to paralysis. Getting those tissues to exchange meaningful messages is another matter entirely, one that has challenged researchers for decades.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and MindTags: Spinal cord injury, Transplant, head transplant
Russian and Chinese surgeons have performed a 12-hour operation to transplant part of the spinal cord from a brain-dead donor into the body of a patient with a three-year history of spinal cord injury.
Experts say there is not enough evidence to confirm the success of the procedure and the patient's life may be in serious danger. The post The first human spinal cord transplant was performed in Russia; medical breakthrough or controversial experiment? appeared first on Digiato.
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