Background
Kinematic alignment (KA) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) restores the native alignment of the knee joint. The present study compared the pre-and post-operative limb alignment of patients undergoing KA-TKA. It evaluated joint line orientation and obliquity on weight-bearing radiographs with the ground as reference.
Methods
56 patients treated with KA-TKA from January to December 2022 were prospectively included. The coronal orientation of the TKA was evaluated on pre- and postoperative anteroposterior long-leg weight-bearing radiographs. For each patient, measurements were made of the hip-knee-ankle (HKA) angle, lateral distal femoral angle (LDFA), medial proximal tibial angle (MPTA), arithmetic HKA (aHKA), and joint line obliquity (JLO).