Avera Medical Minute: New surgery option at Avera benefits patients who have had mastectomies [Video]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – A new surgery option is available for Avera patients. It’s called microvascular breast reconstruction and is a game changer for women who have had mastectomies. In tonight’s Avera Medical Minute, we hear from one patient and how this procedure has changed her life.

Jamie Risse loves spending time outdoors at her home near Lake Madison.

It’s a place where she can relax and unwind.

But back in 2020, she received news that changed her life.

“Every January I’m just like clockwork, I go in for my mammogram, so I went in that morning and I don’t know, I just didn’t feel right that day, I thought something was bothering me or something was wrong, so I went in and I did my mammogram and I went out and got a call that afternoon that I needed to redo it,” said Avera patient, Jamie Risse.

After tests, she found out she had intraductal …