… Calipered KA TKA restored native left to right symmetry of the HKA angle, DLFA, and PMTA
… risk of varus alignment of the tibial component with respect to the native tibial joint line. The …

… and all patellae were left unresurfaced. In the MA … that KA TKA reproduced native valgus
laxity but MA TKA did not. The reasons why KA TKA restored only valgus laxity whereas MA TKA …

… was introduced in the 1980s by Hungerford and Krackow with the goal to improve
functionality by closer mimicking the native knee alignment [18]. With a systematic approach, …

… aligned total knee arthroplasty (KATKA) was developed to more anatomically align the knee
prosthesis to restore the native alignment … compared with mechanically aligned TKA (MATKA…

… aligned (KA) TKA strives to restore native limb and knee alignments without ligament release
with the premise that knee function likewise will be closely restored to native to … of a KA TKA …

… [7] [8] These verification checks restore the prearthritic or native left-to-right symmetry of the
distal lateral femoral angle and proximal medial tibial angle, and native tibial compartment …

… Varus tension of CR TKA was larger than those of PS TKA and the native knee after KA …
The lateral collateral ligament insertion was left intact and the fibular heads were fixed to the …

… and the native knee at … aligned TKA were similar to those of the native knee, while the
lateral PF joint contact pressure after mechanically aligned TKA was higher than that of the native …

… A right femur (left) and kinematically-aligned TKA (right) shows the parallel and … for the
philosophy of co-aligning the axes the components with those of the native knee s 42. The flexion-…

… decades ago, the current understanding of native and artificial knee kinematics is far greater,
… left in such alignment after TKA and release of contracted medial structures is unavoidable. …