ArticleBone & joint research2015
Correction of coronal alignment correlates with reconstruction of joint height in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.
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- Biomechanical consequences of minor medial joint line elevation after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2026Article
- Does robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty restore native joint line more accurately than with conventional instruments?Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Article
- Analysis of correlation between medial joint line change and lower limb coronal alignment after Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Difference between medial and lateral tibia plateau in the coronal plane: importance of preoperative evaluation for medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Perioperative varus alignment does not affect short-term patient-reported outcome measures following mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2022Article
- Robotic-assisted Unicompartmental knee Arthroplasty optimizes joint line restitution better than conventional surgery.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2020Article
- Medial joint line elevation of the tibia measured during surgery has a significant correlation with the limb alignment changes following medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2018Article
- The medial tibial joint line elevation over 5 mm restrained the improvement of knee extension angle in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2018Article
- Metal-backed versus all-polyethylene unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: Proximal tibial strain in an experimentally validated finite element model.Bone & joint research · 2017Article
- Interpreting regression models in clinical outcome studies.Bone & joint research · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivesBecause there have been no standard methods to determine pre-operatively the thickness of resection of the proximal tibia in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA), information about the relationship between the change of limb alignment and the joint line elevation would be useful for pre-operative planning. The purpose of this study was to clarify the correlation between the change of limb alignment and the change of joint line height at the medial compartment after UKA.
methodsA consecutive series of 42 medial UKAs was reviewed retrospectively. These patients were assessed radiographically both pre- and post-operatively with standing anteroposterior radiographs. The thickness of bone resection at the proximal tibia and the distal femur was measured radiographically. The relationship between the change of femorotibial angle (δFTA) and the change of joint line height, was analysed.
resultsThe mean pre- and post-operative FTA was 180.5° (172.2° to 184.8°) and 175.0° (168.5° to 178.9°), respectively. The mean δFTA was 5.5° (2.3° to 10.1°). The joint line elevation of the tibia (JLET) was 4.4 mm (2.1 to 7.8). The δFTA was correlated with the JLET (correlation coefficient 0.494, p = 0.0009).
conclusionsThis study indicated that there is a significant correlation between the change of limb alignment and joint line elevation. This observation suggests that it is possible to know the requirement of elevation of the joint line to obtain the desired correction of limb alignment, and to predict the requirement of bone resection of the proximal tibia pre-operatively. Cite this article: Bone Joint Res 2015;4:128-133.
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