Bariatric Surgeon in Lyndhurst Ohio

The Office on Mayfield Road

Mayfield Road runs through the middle of Lyndhurst the way it has for decades, past the shops and restaurants at Legacy Village and on toward the Cedar-Cleveland Heights corridor that ties this stretch of the east side back to University Circle and the neighborhoods beyond it. Suite 100 sits inside that everyday traffic, in a building that patients from Mayfield Heights, South Euclid, Beachwood, and the surrounding suburbs already know how to find, because this is where Dr. Karas sees patients most of the week.

This is the main office, not a satellite added later to cover another zip code. Dr. Karas runs consultations, follow-up visits, and GLP-1 medication checks out of this suite, and the staff who answer the phone at (216) 377-7257 work out of Lyndhurst too. When someone from the east side calls Kara’s Weight Loss & Wellness, this is usually the office they end up in.

Lyndhurst is an established inner-ring suburb, built out long before the newer development further east, and the practice has settled into that same pattern: a fixed address, staff who recognize returning patients, and a surgeon who is actually in the building on a regular basis rather than rotating through on a set day from somewhere else.

Why East Side Patients Choose This Office

Patients weighing sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass want to know who is performing the surgery and where they will recover, not just which insurance panels a practice accepts. At the Lyndhurst office, that answer stays consistent. Dr. Karas operates at Legacy Surgery Center, also in Lyndhurst, so patients who consult at Suite 100 are typically looking at a short trip for surgery day too, not a separate facility across the county.

For patients managing weight with GLP-1 medications rather than surgery, or moving from one approach to the other, having the prescribing office and the surgical planning under one roof cuts out a step that otherwise means juggling referrals between unconnected practices. Revision surgery patients, who often arrive with a more complicated history, benefit from a single point of contact who already has their records instead of starting an intake process over at an unfamiliar office.

What Dr. Karas Treats at This Office

Consultations at the Lyndhurst office cover the full range of surgical and non-surgical weight loss care Dr. Karas provides:

• Sleeve gastrectomy
• Gastric bypass
• Revision bariatric surgery for patients who have had a prior weight loss procedure
• Medical weight loss and GLP-1 medication management
• Endoscopic weight loss procedures

Which of these makes sense depends on a patient’s history, any prior procedures, and what a consultation at this office turns up. It is not an answer handed out over the phone before Dr. Karas has looked at the actual case.

Getting to the Lyndhurst Office

Kara’s Weight Loss & Wellness
5035 Mayfield Rd, Suite 100
Lyndhurst Ohio 44124
(216) 377-7257

Patients coming from Mayfield Heights, Highland Heights, South Euclid, Beachwood, and the rest of the eastern suburbs typically reach Suite 100 by way of Mayfield Road itself or I-271, both close enough to the office that most appointments fall inside a fifteen or twenty minute drive. Surgical procedures scheduled through this office take place at Legacy Surgery Center, also in Lyndhurst, so patients are not asked to plan a longer trip across the county for the surgery itself. That proximity is a large part of why this office functions as the hub for the practice’s eastern cluster of patients rather than one stop among several.

Questions About the Lyndhurst Office