Pilot Study on Percutaneous Delivery of Recombinant Human Bone Morphongenetic Protein-2 Augments Fusion in a Nicotine-impaired Rabbit Fusion Model.
Sohrab VirkAvani VaishnavHiroshi KumagaiYu-Cheng YaoJames DowdellHarvinder SandhuFrank SchwabSheeraz QureshiPublished in: Clinical spine surgery (2023)
Our study shows that injectable morselized absorbable collagen sponge/rhBMP-2 can create twice as much bone within a nicotine-impaired rabbit spine fusion model when delivered 4 weeks out from the time of surgery.
Keyphrases
- recombinant human
- minimally invasive
- bone mineral density
- smoking cessation
- soft tissue
- coronary artery bypass
- bone loss
- bone regeneration
- ultrasound guided
- postmenopausal women
- coronary artery disease
- amino acid
- wound healing
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute coronary syndrome
- surgical site infection
- protein protein