China news agency, Beijing, November 30 (Reporter Dong Zichang) 2017 China Organ Transplant Development Foundation publicity work conference was held in Beijing on November 30. In response to the recent social hot-swapping surgery, Huang Jiefu, director of China's Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, said that this violates China's organ transplant regulations and is not technically, ethically, medically ethical.
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According to British media reports, the Italian neurologist Sergio Canaveiro announced that after about 18 hours of surgery, he and the Chinese Harbin Medical University team succeeded in having a remains of the head with another remains of the spine , Blood vessels and neural connections.
Huang Jiefu said that in the last century, scientists had made head transplants and transplanted the head of a dog to another dog, and the dog died one day after the operation. So far, animal head transplant experiments have never been successful.
Huang Jiefu pointed out that nowadays medicine still does not recognize the scientific nature of head transplants. There are theoretically two insurmountable technical problems in head transplants. One is to seamlessly restore the neck, bones, nerves and lymphatic vessels to the original shape, and there are many spinal cord Channel, chaotic, can not be cut off after the connection, and central neurons are not renewable, this is a technically insurmountable obstacle. There is also the problem of immune rejection, which requires large doses of immunization drugs, which have serious side effects and are simply problems that can not be solved.
"After the head transplant, is the head or body to identify the individual, the current ethical no agreement." Huang Jiefu said that from the medical ethics, should first consider whether to be able to do, but should not, there is no evidence in the experiment, There is no basis for science, animal does not succeed on the basis of doing this, this is not reverence for life. (Finish)
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