The Weight-Loss Surgery Center at McAllen Heart Hospital offers four weight-loss surgery options so you can get what's best for you, here in the Rio Grande Valley.

Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass
In a gastric bypass procedure, surgeons bypass part of the stomach to create a smaller stomach that holds less food before patients feel full, causing them to eat less and lose weight. During a laparoscopic bypass, surgeons make several small incisions in the abdomen instead of a single, large incision. Then, surgeons operate through the small openings using a laparoscope—a fiber optic tube and a small video camera that shows abdominal organs on a TV monitor. Patients usually feel less pain and have a shorter recovery period with laparoscopic surgery than with traditional surgery. 

Lap-Band® System
The Lap-Band® System consists of an inflatable band that surgeons place around the upper part of the stomach—using a laparoscopic procedure—to reduce its capacity and make patients feel full after eating less food. When patients eat less food, they lose weight and keep it off.

Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
In gastric sleeve surgery, physicians use a laparoscope to permanently remove 60 to 85 percent of the patient's stomach, so that the stomach takes the shape of a "sleeve" or tube. While this procedure is not reversible, it may be the best choice for patients who want to lose weight but have certain health conditions that could make other procedures less desirable.

Revision
Revision surgery can help people who have had gastric bypass surgery but have not lost weight as quickly as expected or have regained weight because of a stretched stomach pouch or enlarged stomach outlet. The procedure reduces the stomach pouch and outlet to the approximate size they were after bypass surgery.