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Akio Wakabayashi, MD; Solomon T. Little, Jr., MD; John E. Connolly, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1967;95(5):743-752.

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IN 1706, Raymond Vieussens¹ discovered the small openings on the endocardium which communicate with the coronary arteries. Two years later, Thebesius described the numerous openings for venous blood in the auricles and ventricles² which are now commonly referred to as the thebesian circulation. In 1933, Wearn³ demonstrated direct communications between the heart chambers and the myocardial sinusoids, which he called "arterioluminal" and "arteriosinusoidal" vessels. In the event of gradual closure of the orifices of the coronary arteries, the thebesian circulation of Wearn's circulation can supply the heart muscle with sufficient blood to enable it to maintain an efficient circulation.⁴ Nordenstroem⁵ demonstrated the passage of contrast media from the myocardium ("myocardiogram") to the left ventricular lumen in a patient with coronary artery stenosis, which he thought might be radiological expression of the thebesian circulation. Thebesian or Wearn's circulation might play an important role in the blood . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Irvine, Calif

From the Department of Surgery, University of California College of Medicine, Irvine, Calif.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 26, 1967.

Read before the 15th Scientific Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Cardiovascular Society, Atlantic City, NJ, June 16, 1967.

Reprint requests to the Department of Surgery, University of California College of Medicine, Irvine, Calif (Dr. Wakabayashi).

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