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No Significant Differences in Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes between PCL Retained or Sacrificed Kinematic Aligned Medial Pivot Total Knee Arthroplasty in Varus Knee

Fortunato Giustra; Francesco Bosco; Giorgio Cacciola; Salvatore Risitano; Marcello Capella; Alessandro Bistolfi; Alessandro Massè; Luigi Sabatini · 2022 · Journal of Clinical Medicine

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Abstract

In the last decades, several surgical techniques, such as medial pivot (MP) philosophy and kinematic alignment (KA), have been introduced in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) to improve patients’ outcomes. This retrospective study aims to evaluate the clinical, radiographic, and functional results of PCL preservation or sacrifice in KA MP-TKA. A consecutive series of 147 patients older than 60, with a minimum follow-up of two years, were treated with TKA for severe primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology between 1 January 2019, and 1 July 2020. After excl

Abstract by Fortunato Giustra; Francesco Bosco; Giorgio Cacciola; Salvatore Risitano; Marcello Capella; Alessandro Bistolfi; Alessandro Massè; Luigi Sabatini, Journal of Clinical Medicine (2022) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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