Dr. Ike Okafor:

We had a report from the Boston review that a section in the table that mentioned growing rods with springs, but I am not an orthopaedic surgeon, so I did not know what that meant. It was not until the Deputy sent in his subsequent parliamentary question that we became aware he was referring to springs, and that made it easier for us to narrow down which patients we were looking at. We would have had to go through every single child with SMA who had had spinal surgery to be able to identify the patients-----