My daughter is having surgery in Nov., her dr. wants to use BMP. I was surprised and wasn't prepared with questions because I had heard it was only used on adults. Now I'm trying to find out more since we won't be going back until Oct.
Has anyone here had it used for their fusions and are there any know complications or side effects?
If you've had it, were you happy with the results and did you fuse well?
I did find one negative study when used for anterior fusions, they compared patients who had BMP vs. a bone matrix. On the patients who had BMP, the space between the vertebraes where the fusion took place became compressed over time and they described the fused bone as having lucency (less bone mass?). Since she's having a posterior, I'm not sure what kind of implications this could have. The authors of this study said they will no longer use BMP for anterior fusions. I wonder if anyone has heard of this?
Thanks
Has anyone here had it used for their fusions and are there any know complications or side effects?
If you've had it, were you happy with the results and did you fuse well?
I did find one negative study when used for anterior fusions, they compared patients who had BMP vs. a bone matrix. On the patients who had BMP, the space between the vertebraes where the fusion took place became compressed over time and they described the fused bone as having lucency (less bone mass?). Since she's having a posterior, I'm not sure what kind of implications this could have. The authors of this study said they will no longer use BMP for anterior fusions. I wonder if anyone has heard of this?
Thanks
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