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Total Knee Arthroplasty Using Adjusted Restricted Kinematic Alignment for the Treatment of Severe Varus Deformity: Technical Note.

Kai ZhengFeng ZhuWeicheng ZhangHouyi SunJun ZhouRongqun LiYaozeng Xu
Published in: Orthopaedic surgery (2022)
The new alignment technique of arKA aims to balance the flexion and extension gap without extensive releases of soft tissue and restore the native pre-arthritic alignment, may be a promising alignment strategy for treating severe varus deformity. However, further study and comparison with other alignment techniques is needed.
Keyphrases
  • total knee arthroplasty
  • total hip
  • soft tissue
  • early onset
  • clinical evaluation