Mechanical Alignment for Total Knee Arthroplasty, It is the End of an Era.

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Mechanical Alignment for Total Knee Arthroplasty, It is the End of an Era.

By Personalized Arthroplasty Society FEATURING Pascal-André Vendittoli

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May 22, 2020

Dr Pascal-André Vendittoli is a professor of surgery at University of Montreal, Canada who performs ...
read more ↘ kinematic alignment TKA since 2011. Along with Dr Rivière and Vigdorchik, they recently published an editorial declaring that it is now the end of the ERA of mechanical alignment TKA (DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2019.07.005).

In this video, Dr Vendittoli reviews the normal knee anatomy and kinematics and the modifications produced by the “one size fits all” mechanical alignment technique. As a solution to improve our TKA patients’ clinical results, Dr Vendittoli present the “restricted” kinematic alignment protocol (rKA). He developed this protocol to reliably produce a prosthetic knee with component/knee/limb alignments that always fall within an evidence-based safe alignment range which is compatible with long term implant survivorship.

Blakeney W, Beaulieu Y, Puliero B, Kiss MO, Vendittoli PA. Bone resection for mechanically aligned total knee arthroplasty creates frequent gap modifications and imbalances. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2020 May;28(5):1532-1541. doi: 10.1007/s00167-019-05562-8.
Almaawi AM, Hutt JRB, Masse V, Lavigne M, Vendittoli PA. The Impact of Mechanical and Restricted Kinematic Alignment on Knee Anatomy in Total Knee Arthroplasty. J Arthroplasty. 2017 Jul;32(7):2133-2140. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2017.02.028.

For more information, please visit the Personalized Arthroplasty Society web site: http://www.personalizedarthroplasty.com
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