Diego Marines Copado, MD | Source | Colorectal Surgeon at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
Diego Marines Copado, MD
Dr. Diego C. Marines Copado, MD is a specialist in Colon and Rectal Surgery at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. He speaks English and Spanish.
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“Even though there are different options, the gold standard is a colonoscopy because if anything else is abnormal on the other tests then we have to resort back to colonoscopy to find out what’s going on. With colonoscopies we’re able to take a biopsy of anything we find or even remove some early polyps and tumors.”
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“With this new technique that is only being done at a few academic centers around the world, I was able to save his sphincters and make a connection between the colon and the remainder of the rectum. The procedure is called transanal TME, or total mesorectal excision. That allows us to go deep in the pelvis to delineate the sites where we’re going to transect the rectum above the sphincters to be able to save them and then work through the bottom all the way to the inside of the abdominal cavity.”
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“It is a series of things that each, individually, have been proven in multiple studies to improve recovery for patients. Some studies have shown that chewing gum decreases the time from the surgery to the return of bowel function. Some studies have shown that walking immediately after surgery instead of resting. All of those things put together form our enhanced recovery protocol.”
