The bone around the spine doesn't form properly, causing part of the spinal cord to stick out of the baby's back.

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It is used instead of taking bone from the hip in spinal fusion surgeries in which extra bone is added to the spine to fuse parts of the back together, stabilizing it.

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It builds bone density by 5% to 10% in the spine and hip and cuts in half the risk of a debilitating hip fracture.

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Infuse combines a protein that causes bone to grow (a drug) with a device that delivers that protein to the spine.

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The Spine Journal published a paper saying that side effects for Infuse, a protein drug used to cause bone growth, were not properly included in medical journal articles.

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