“…It is, therefore, not surprising that experiments have been performed to divert blood directly from the left ventricular cavity into the ischaemic portion of the left ventricle. Attempts to establish communications between the left ventricular cavity and the myocardium have been made by such techniques as transmyocardial puncture (Lary, 1963;Sen, Udwadia, Kinare, and Parulkar, 1965;Sen et al, 1968;Wakabayashi, Little, and Conolly, 1967;White and Hershey, 1968;Khazei, Kime, Papadopoulous, and Cowley, 1968;Kuzela and Miller, 1969;Anabtawi, Reigler, and Ellison, 1969), the insertion of grafts between the myocardium and the left ventricular cavity (Goldman et al, 1956;Massimo and Boffi, 1957), the cutting or punching of the endocardium (Lary, 1963;Berger, Robbins, and Rodriguez, 1964;Vineberg, Baichwal, and Myers, 1965), or the establishment of a communication between a coronary artery peripheral to an occlusion and the left ventricular cavity (Lary, Camelo, Sherman, and Noto, 1969;Munro and Allen, 1969). According to Sen et al (1965), the myocardium of a reptilian heart receives blood mainly from the left ventricular cavity; they considered this an argument for the feasi-lPresent address: Inttrni Klinika, Orlicka Notlina 1057, Hradec KrAlovd, C.S.S.R.…”