Medicine has been under a constant change. The latest strong and permanent trend in most
of the medical fields is personalized medicine. Personalized medicine or theragnostics …

Alignment is regarded as a hot topic in total knee arthroplasty (TKA)[3]. For a long time, a
neutral mechanical alignment was proposed as the only reliable, durable option in TKA [2] …

Introduction Although total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a very frequent surgery, one in five
patients is not completely satisfied. Mechanical alignment (MA) is the most popular …

Background In an effort to increase satisfaction among total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients,
emphasis has been placed on implant positioning and limb alignment. Traditionally, the aim …

Orthopaedic surgeons are currently faced with an overwhelming number of choices
surrounding total knee arthroplasty (TKA), not only with the latest technologies and …

© European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy (ESSKA) 2016 the
outlier in mechanical alignment. No outlier was even reported in robotic-assisted surgery …

Dissatisfaction following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been extensively documented
and it was attributed to numerous factors. In recent years, significant focus has been directed …

Purpose In total knee arthroplasty (TKA), implants are increasingly aligned based on
emerging patient-specific alignment strategies, such as unrestricted kinematic alignment …

In the last 10 years many studies have questioned if the strive to mechanical align any knee
may pose some problems related to ligament misbalancing that could explain the high rate …

Mechanical alignment (MA) and its tenets have been considered essential for total knee
arthroplasty (TKA) success since they were introduced in 1973. However, over time, there …