Perfusion is graded on a scale of 0 to 4, based on the uptake of blood through the coronary arteries. Artery blockage can cause reduced uptake or abnormal perfusion, meaning the heart muscle isn ...

Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. By Ted Alcorn On some level, the human liver in the operating ...

In 2008, he became the first patient to receive a set of donor lungs through UHN’s groundbreaking Toronto Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) System – a medical breakthrough developed at Toronto ...