Thank you for visiting our website. If you are severely overweight and have tried everything imaginable to lose weight through conventional means such as dieting, exercise, behavior therapy, and/or drugs, but have been unsuccessful in your attempts, then weight loss surgery may be right for you.
Our practice is based at the St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and specializes in bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) for morbidly obese patients and is a recognized “Bariatric Center of Excellence” for its safety and results. Among the many laparoscopic or minimally invasive procedures that we offer are laparoscopic gastric banding also knows as the LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System and the REALIZE™ Band, Gastric Bypass (Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass), Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy, Bariatric Revision surgery and the StomaphyX™ procedure. Safety and effectiveness of our approach is validated by 0% postoperative mortality and morbidity lower then average for other Centers of Excellence in over 1250 bariatric procedures.
Please come inside our website to learn more about bariatric surgery in Baltimore, Maryland with Dr. Averbach.