Not all knees are the same.
Journal
The bone & joint journal
ISSN: 2049-4408
Titre abrégé: Bone Joint J
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101599229
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Jun 2024
01 Jun 2024
Historique:
medline:
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6
2024
pubmed:
1
6
2024
entrez:
31
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The aim of mechanical alignment in total knee arthroplasty is to align all knees into a fixed neutral position, even though not all knees are the same. As a result, mechanical alignment often alters a patient's constitutional alignment and joint line obliquity, resulting in soft-tissue imbalance. This annotation provides an overview of how the Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee (CPAK) classification can be used to predict imbalance with mechanical alignment, and then offers practical guidance for bone balancing, minimizing the need for soft-tissue releases.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38821506
doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.106B6.BJJ-2023-1292.R1
pii: BJJ-2023-1292.R1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
525-531Informations de copyright
© 2024 The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
J. Bellemans reports royalties or licenses and consulting fees from Smith & Nephew and Corin, consulting fees and payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events from Smith & Nephew, Corin, and Medacta, and multiple patents, all of which are unrelated to the study. D. B. Chen and S. J. MacDessi report research fellowship funding from Smith & Nephew, Stryker, and Zimmer Biomet, and a collaborative multi-study research agreement to evaluate functional knee alignment techniques from Stryker. D. B. Chen and S. J. MacDessi also report consulting fees from Stryker and Amplitude, and speakers' bureau payments from Stryker, all of which are unrelated to this study. D. B. Chen and S. J. MacDessi have also applied for a patent lodged on IP pertaining to this study. S. J. MacDessi is an editorial board member of The Bone & Joint Journal.
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