Objective To study the protective effect of verapamil against ischemia reperfusion injury when liver was resected.Methods The routine Pringle's maneuver hepatic vascular occlusion in 18～20min. Thirty-nine patients for resection of liver with cirrhosis were randomly divided into two groups, Verapamil group (n=20), the 20 patients with hepatectomy were given by 5mg verapamil through right gastroepiploic vein before blocking porta hepatis.Physiologic saline group (n=19), were injected by 20ml saline in the same way.The variation of postoperative liver function were measured.Liver intracellular [Ca 2+ ]i and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) after being reperfused for 1h were measured as well as the hepatic histopathologic alterations were also examined.Results The levels of intracellular [Ca 2+ ]i concentrations,alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase(AST)from the verapamil group increment less than those of the physiologic saline group(P