Volume 10 Issue 1

Reframing Type 2 Diabetes as Cardiometabolic Disease: A Five-phenotype Model Beyond Glycated Hemoglobin

Peter A. Goulden
Type 2 diabetes has traditionally been framed as a disorder of hyperglycemia caused by insulin resistance (IR) and progressive beta-cell failure. That model remains biologically useful, but it is clinically incomplete.

Right Hepatic Lobe Herniation after Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Case Report

Valerio Massimo Magro, Lucia Cicchi, Andrea Sorbino, Carmelo Pirri and Calogero Foti

Sleeve gastrectomy is a vertical gastric resection with tubulation of the residual stomach. It is an irreversible procedure, which causes a marked reduction in appetite and early satiety, with consequent significant weight loss (>70% excess weight).