New trends in transient hyperthermia and liver preservation

Abstract

The investigations carried out by Charlotte von Horn and Thomas Minor 1 deal with the potential benefits of controlled hyperthermia for improving liver graft preservation against reperfusion insult. The authors, based on well‐known heat shock preconditioning strategies as an effective method to protect the liver from subsequent IRI 2, 3, suggest that a transient hyperthermia step graft reconditioning from 35 to 42°C for 10 min contributes to liver graft protection against reperfusion injury.