Conway Bariatric Surgery - Advanced Surgical Associates - Conway, SC

Regain your life, through weight loss surgery.

Thank you for visiting our website.  The website is constantly being updated, and we hope to have most parameters up to date by June 1, 2009.  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.  For over a decade here in South Carolina, Dr Donald Balder and now Advanced Surgical Associates have specialized in minimally invasive surgery options to optimize his passion – patient care!  Our office offers a multitude of minimally invasive procedures with a specialized program in weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery and with this complement offers our patients several safe and effective weight loss surgical options.  Dr Balder’s minimally invasive surgical weight loss options include:  the LAP-BAND™ procedure, Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery, Laparoscopic Revisional Weight Loss Surgery, Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (with valid CPT coding proposed 2010), and incision-less weight loss surgical procedures (ROSE and POSE procedures).  

Please note that Dr Donald A. Balder has helped to pioneer and specializes in minimally invasive and advanced laparoscopic surgery here in South Carolina.  With this Dr Donald Balder can offer our patients as well as their friends and families state of the art minimally invasive surgical alternatives that they will not find here locally in other surgical practices.  Many of these services include laparoscopic cholecystectomy (which most board certified general surgeons now preform) but also include a variety of services which are not routine to other local surgical practices such as - "S.I.L.S." - single incision laparoscopic surgery; laparoscopic inguinal (groin) hernia repair; laparoscopic anti-reflux (heartburn) surgery (with minimally invasive laparoscopic repair of hiatal hernia and associated fundoplication or "gastric wrap"); laparoscopic colon resection; laparoscopic splenectomy; laparoscopic evaluation of chronic abdominal pain syndrome; and many others.  Additional minimally invasive surgical services through our office include Advanced Minimally Invasive General Surgery with specialization in endoscopic or GI (gastrointestinal) evaluation through endoscopy - EGD (upper endoscopy) [with or without removal of abnormalities]; and Colonoscopy (for colorectal screening or lower GI symptoms - such as bleeding, pain, and stool caliber changes).  

Our office based Advanced Vein Center involves the minimally invasive management of chronic lower leg varicose veins, leg pains or fatigue, and lower leg pains or ulcerations.  We preform a number of vein surgeries in our office for optimization of patient care including VNUS Closure & VNUS ClosureFAST®; stab phlebectomy (ambulatory phlebectomy or varicose vein segmental vein removal) and Vascular Surgery  with minimally invasive surgery alternatives..

 

Directions to our main office - click here.

Bariatric Patients: - When you visit our office, you’ll be surrounded by a very motivated staff and health care patient-centered, compassionate Christian-based team of professionals who are committed to both surgical excellence and assisting you on your weight loss journey. Advanced Surgical Associates, after a rigorous review process, was designated as a Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery, by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in October of 2007. In order to obtain a "Center of Excellence" designation, all three entities - our bariatric surgeon, Donald A. Balder, MD; Conway Medical Center (the local hospital in which we perform our main in-patient bariatric surgeries at present), and our surgical practice based here in Horry County South Carolina were required to meet the highest quality patient care standards with associated pathways and outcome data - in the National field of bariatric surgery. We have also achieved the designation from Allergan, Inc. as a Lap Band Total Care™ Program which recognizes & sets standards for best practices in adjustable laparoscopic band patient care.  

Additionally, if your insurance does not cover weight loss surgery, we do provide a low self-pay option in South Carolina for a designated  Lap Band Total Care™ Program and we offer several financing options.  Most South Carolinians interested in Weight Loss Surgery are quickly finding many of the pleasures of working through our practice at Advanced Surgical Associates, P.A.  We have the lowest priced Lap Band surgery program available in South Carolina today as a Lap Band Total Care™ Program  (without hidden costs that you will find almost everywhere else), with the best patient outcomes - with regard to actual weight loss and low risk of associated complications! 

Use our BMI calculator to find out if you are a candidate for weight loss surgery or contact our Conway office today to determine if you are a candidate.

Part of our commitment to serving our patients includes providing information that helps them make more informed decisions about their weight loss surgical options and overall health needs.  We genuinely hope that our website is helpful to you in learning more about our current practice located here in Conway, South Carolina as well as the specialty services that we can assist you or your loved ones with - Bariatric (weight loss) Surgery, Advanced Laparoscopic General Surgery and Office based complete VEIN care (Advanced Vein Center – minimally invasive vein surgery & office based procedures) as well as a decade long commitment to innovative and advancing endovascular & Vascular surgery procedures.  We also see patients everyday for a variety of common daily problems including GI bleeding (rectal bleeding, hemorrhoid disease, problems with the colon and digestive system), Heartburn (Hiatal Hernia, GERD, recurrent or recalcitrant peptic ulcer disease), Abdominal Pain – and we offer out patient work up of these problems with a full diagnostic and interventional Endoscopy service based out of Rivertown Outpatient Surgery Center.

Please browse through our website and be sure to give us a call @ (843) 347-3900, if you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment for bariatric, general or vascular surgery procedures.  

 

If you would like be considered for weight loss surgery, please click on the Bariatric Seminar tab and register online for attendance at our next seminar.  We look forward to meeting you soon!

If you need to contact Dr Donald A. Balder, please e-mail him - don.balder@sccoast.net.  Wishing you health and happiness,

Dr. Donald A. Balder, and Staff

 

Advanced Surgical Associates
Donald A. Balder, MD., FACS
2376 Cypress Circle, Suite 103
Conway, SC 29526
Phone: (843) 347-3900
Fax: (847) 347-3930