Reperfusion Index to measure donor organ viability.

2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Human BioSystems (HBSC), a biomedical company conducting research to extend the shelf life of blood platelets and donor organs, announced that HBS Chief Medical Officer Luis Toledo, MD, PhD, and Fernando Lopez, MD and HBS senior research scientist, have defined a method to evaluate an organ's viability after preservation.

The method is called the Reperfusion Index.

An index total number of 15, displaying viable functionality in each category, is considered to be a perfect organ while an …