Since the clinical course of acute myocardial infarction is highly variable, routine (and sometimes serial) echocardiographic studies may be needed in all patients to assess actual risks and to correct therapeutic strategy, but obtaining an echocardiogram in a patient with uncomplicated AMI must not delay reperfusion therapy.
Metabolic syndrome, that diabetes mellitus forms a part of was discovered by Dr Gerald Reaven's in 1988. Banting was honored by World Diabetes Day which is held on his birthday, November 14 staring 2007.t was known in the 17th century as the âpissing evilâ. The term diabetes was probably coined by Apollonius of Memphis around 250 BC. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425. It was in 1675 that Thomas Willis added the word â'mellitus'â to the word diabetes.
When Victor A. McKusick, M.D., first described Marfan syndrome in 1955, he predicted that these patients with serious ocular, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular problems would eventually be found to have a mutation in a structural connective tissue protein.