At UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital’s Bariatric Services, our experts can help you achieve and maintain your healthiest weight. Benefits include improving your quality of life, and reducing your risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, and other medical complications. We offer our patients a spectrum of weight loss options – from non-surgical medical options to endobariatric intermediate procedures and surgical options.
Our Minimally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery Program is accredited as a comprehensive center with adolescent qualifications by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program. This accreditation recognizes the program for meeting rigorous standards of quality that evaluate patient outcomes, the volume of surgeries performed each year, and the continued support patients receive after surgery. The program specializes in the treatment of obesity and abdominal problems in men and women.
Bariatric Services
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
300 Halket St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
To schedule an initial evaluation, please call
412-641-3632 or complete a form online.
For individuals who choose not to undergo surgery, or for those who are not eligible, we offer non-surgical medical weight loss options. Treatment is tailored to your needs and supervised by medical experts who are trained in providing care for patients who are overweight and/or with obesity.
Our staff will provide the tools needed to help you move forward by providing a comprehensive program of the most current medical treatments available, nutritional education, healthy lifestyle coaching and support.
To help patients of any age achieve desired weight loss (averaging 7-10% of their total body weight) through nutrition and lifestyle counseling, using weight loss medicine as an adjunct to increase weight loss.
To offer patients 18 to 70+ years of age weight loss (more than 5% of total body weight) through meal replacements, lifestyle changes, and education modules under a medically monitored program.
If down the road bariatric intermediate or surgical options become available to you, you’ll have access to UPMC’s highly trained staff of physicians, advanced practiced providers, and registered dietitians.
These non-surgical options offer weight loss (averaging 10-15% of total body weight) through endoscopic procedures. These procedures provide a less invasive and lower risk option than bariatric surgery.
The intragastric balloon system is designed to assist adult patients in losing and maintaining weight. Your bariatric surgeon will insert the balloon through your mouth and down your esophagus into your stomach. Once placed, the balloon is filled with saline until roughly the size of a small melon. The procedure takes 20 to 30 minutes and you typically go home the same day. The balloon helps you lose weight by reinforcing portion control and keeping you feeling full after meals. After six months, the balloon is removed.
The program includes balloon insertion and removal as well as a 12-month extensive lifestyle program, which begins at the time the balloon is inserted.
Learn more about the intragastric balloon.
Provides weight loss by restricting the amount of food consumed (mimics surgical sleeve gastrectomy)
This procedure involves endoscopic suture placement along the greater curvature of the stomach, decreasing stomach volume by approximately 60-70%.
All endobariatric procedure services include a comprehensive approach by a multidisciplinary team. The team addresses nutritional, educational, psychological, and motivational aspects of weight management over a 12-month program. These endobariatric procedures are not covered by insurance.
Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) may help achieve long-term weight loss, reduce or eliminate life-threatening weight-related illnesses, increase life span, and improve quality of life.
If you think you might be a candidate for bariatric services, the following resources are available to you:
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