Can a Drug Reduce a Smoker’s Risk of Pseudoarthrosis?

Could using the drug varenicline cut the risk of pseudarthrosis for those patients who smoke?

New work, a mouse model, from Rothman Institute and Thomas Jefferson University delivered promising data. The study, “Varenicline mitigates the increased risk of pseudarthrosis associated with nicotine,” was published in the September 2023 edition of The Spine Journal.