Surgery

At Carilion Clinic, we now offer you the option of a minimally invasive da Vinci ® procedure in many general surgery conditions, including:

We began offering this newer type of bariatric surgery at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital (a designated Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence) in 2012.

Gastric sleeve surgery is a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure performed under general anesthesia. In this procedure, your surgeon removes 60 to 85 percent of your stomach so it takes on the shape of a sleeve or tube. This significantly restricts the amount of food you can eat and because your doctor removes the part of your stomach that generates a hunger-stimulating hormone it will reduce your food cravings.

At both Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, we offer laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, a minimally invasive procedure in which a surgeon places a band around the upper part of your stomach to limit how much food you can eat. Following surgery, you will feel full after consuming small amounts.

Weight loss surgery can bring about many positive changes in your life, but it is a significant step that requires you to make a lifetime commitment to eating better and exercising more, and we want to make sure you are ready for it.

Your life will change after bariatric surgery. In the first year, people who undergo weight loss surgery may lose as much as 40 to 80 percent of their excess body weight.

Carilion New River Valley Medical Center has twice been nationally recognized as a Top 100 Performance Improvement Leader by Thomson Reuters. We emphasize a multidisciplinary approach to treatment and perform one type of bariatric surgery: laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, which creates a small pouch to hold food so you eat less but feel full sooner and longer.

In recognition of our strong, multidisciplinary commitment to bariatric care, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital has been designated as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

We offer three types of bariatric surgery:

A wide variety of both cancerous and noncancerous conditions can affect a man’s urinary tract and reproductive organs, such as prostate cancer, bladder and kidney cancer, and ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction.

A wide variety of both cancerous and noncancerous conditions can affect a woman’s reproductive system.

Common noncancerous gynecologic conditions such as fibroids (growths in the uterine wall), endometriosis (growths of the uterine lining), and prolapse (falling or slipping of the uterus) can cause chronic pain and heavy bleeding, as well as other disabling symptoms. If you suffer from one of these conditions or if you have early stage gynecologic cancer your doctor may recommend a hysterectomy, the surgical removal of your uterus.