任晓平在俄罗斯完成脊髓手术
China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia
中国外科医生任晓平在莫斯科为一名脊髓被切断的患者完成手术，手术历时12小时，患者目前状况稳定。团队切除了患者三年前因创伤被切断的一段脊髓，并以脑死亡捐献者的脊髓片段替代，使用显微外科技术和聚乙二醇。
报道交代了手术的时间、时长、移植材料和患者当前状况，呈现这项脊髓手术的具体过程与已知结果。
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 team working together,” Ren told the South China Morning Post on Thursday.
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According to an article quoting Ren and published in the New Scientist on Wednesday, the team removed a segment of spinal cord that had been severed by trauma three years earlier and replaced it with a segment from a brain-dead donor, using microsurgery and polyethylene glycol, a substance that helps fuse cell membranes for the “world’s first spinal cord transplant”.
“The surgery was completed on October 14-15, lasting 12 hours. The patient’s condition is currently stable,” he said.
来源：南华早报 · scmp.com