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Chaohua Fang1,2,3, Yichao Luan4, Zhiwei Wang5
1Department of Joint Surgery, Ningbo No. 6 Hospital, Ningbo, China.
Abstract:
This study aimed to investigate the influence of tibial malrotation on knee kinematics after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). A symmetric fixed-bearing posterior-stabilized prosthesis was implanted in the validated knee model with different rotational alignments of the tibial component (neutral, 3° external rotation, 5° external rotation, 3° internal rotation, and 5° internal rotation). Computational kinematic simulations were used to evaluate the postoperative kinematics of the knee joint including anteroposterior translation femoral condyles and axial rotation of tibial component during 0°-135° knee flexion. The results revealed that the neutral position of the tibial component was not the closest kinematics to the intact knee, the model with 5° external rotation of the tibial component showed the closest lateral condyle translation and tibial axial rotation, and moderate external rotation could improve the kinematics after TKA.
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