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1 Dr. Sergio Canavero says he is two years away from performing the first total human head transplant. 2  The first patient will be a 30-year-old Russian man with a rare, genetic muscle wasting disease. 3  One ethicist says Canavero should be helping paralyzed patients walk before performing body transplants.
The procedure was pioneered in 1967 at the Cleveland Clinic by the late Argentine-born physician RenÃ© Favaloro. Previously, surgeons had used grafted veins only to reconstruct blocked arteries. Dr. Favaloro, however, discovered that the veins could be used to connect the unblocked sections of a coronary artery, effectively bypassing the obstruction.