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.
The German biologist Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) is considered a founder of the cell theory. He also discovered pepsin, the first digestive enzyme prepared from animal tissue, and experimented to disprove spontaneous generation. Theodor Schwann was born at Neuss near DÃ¼sseldorf on Dec. 7, 1810. At the University of Bonn, which he entered in 1829, he met Johannes MÃ¼ller, the physiologist, whom he assisted in his experiments. Schwann continued his medical studies at the University of WÃ¼rzburg and later at the University of Berlin, from which he graduated in 1834.