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<\/p>\nFARGO \u2014 When Amber Dillard of Hettinger, North Dakota, was diagnosed with multiple endocrine neoplasia, she wasn’t surprised.<\/p>\n
She’s the fifth generation in her family to have the tumors on her pancreas.<\/p>\n
What was shocking was “who” would perform the surgery: a robot.<\/p>\n
“That’s one of the biggest advantages to just get the patients back to their baseline and recovery significantly quicker,” said Dr. Kiarash Mashayek, a surgeon at Sanford Health in Fargo.<\/p>\n
Mashayek has also done two other robotic Whipple surgeries and is a huge proponent of robotic surgery.<\/p>\n
“I love the robots. I do almost 90% or 95% of my surgeries robotically,” Mashayekh said.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Kiarash Mashayek explains the Whipple procedure at Sanford Health, describing the complex surgery and the use of robotic technology to help patients recover more quickly.<\/p>\n
Josh Mathisen \/ WDAY<\/p>\n
But he hasn’t always been an advocate of the robotic Whipple.<\/p>\n
“I always I was a true believer that open surgery will be a better surgery for the patients for different reasons,” he said.<\/p>\n
But as Mashayekh looked into the robotic Whipple and considered what it could mean for patients, he realized it could be a game-changer.<\/p>\n
And Dillard can attest that it is. <\/p>\n
“Tomorrow will be a month after my surgery, and I’m pretty much back doing a lot of the same things that I did before,” she said.<\/p>\n
While the surgery has benefits, it doesn’t come entirely without risks.<\/p>\n
“If bleeding happens, it will be significantly harder to control, but, if you do it carefully and control everything, I think that even the technicality and the outcomes in terms of the surgery and the margins and the oncologic outcomes is even better,” Mashayekh said.<\/p>\n
For Dillard, the results were clear and she hopes other patients are made aware of the benefits.<\/p>\n
“The robotics of this procedure, I think, are really something that need to be talked about more because robotics really just mitigate a lot of post-surgical infection and other complications that can come from doing a traditional Whipple,” she said.<\/p>\n
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Amber Dillard with Dr. Kiarash Mashayek after her robotic Whipple procedure.<\/p>\n
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