This, of course, is quite normal in the progress of science.
. Heart Perfusion, Energetics, and Ischemia The aim of the ARW on "Microvascular, rheological, metabolic and heat-transfer aspects of the heart: relation to ischaemia and thrombosis", convened in Chateau de Bonas, July 4-11, 1982, was to describe functions and performance of the heart in an interdisciplin ary effort, involving cardiologists, pathologists, biochemists, haemorheologists, physiologists, pharmacologists and bioengineers; to explore interactions between such subfields as blood rheology, micro circulation and ischaemia of the myocardium, heat transfer, heat work and performance as a pump, effect of -metabolites and ion transfer, mechanism of sudden death, protein synthesis and protein molecular transformations. There was even a problem within each specialty, and as is rather common, quite diverse views have been expressed. One of the purposes of the Convenor was to relate clinical haemorheology to the heart energetics and heart metabolism.