Is There a Difference in the Outcome of Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty Performed Using Kinematic Versus Mechanical Alignment?

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, Greece.
• ² Knee Arthroplasty Coordinated Health/Lehigh Valley Health Network at Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
• ³ Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Imam Hossein Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁴ Division of Adult Reconstruction, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Chair, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona.
• ⁵ Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology and International Joint Centre (IJC), Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Acibadem Maslak Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁶ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, Greece.
• ⁷ Istanbul Medipol University Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁸ Russell A. Hibbs Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Hip and Knee reconstruction, Columbia Orthopaedics, New York, New York.