Impact of femoro-tibial size combinations and TKA design on kinematics

Dupraz, Ingrid; Thorwächter, Christoph; Grupp, Thomas M.; Hammerschmid, Florian; Woiczinski, Matthias; Jansson, Volkmar; Müller, Peter E. und Steinbrück, Arnd (2021): Impact of femoro-tibial size combinations and TKA design on kinematics. In: Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Bd. 142, Nr. 6: S. 1197-1212

Abstract

The variability in patients' femoral and tibial anatomy requires to use different tibia component sizes with the same femoral component size. These size combinations are allowed by manufacturers, but the clinical impact remains unclear. Therefore, the goals of our study were to investigate whether combining different sizes has an impact on the kinematics for two well-established knee systems and to compare these systems' kinematics to the native kinematics. Materials and methods Six fresh frozen knee specimens were tested in a force controlled knee rig before and after implantation of a cruciate retaining (CR) and a posterior-stabilized (PS) implant. Femoro-tibial kinematics were recorded using a ultrasonic-based motion analysis system while performing a loaded squat from 30 degrees to 130 degrees. In each knee, the original best fit inlay was then replaced by different inlays simulating a smaller or bigger tibia component. The kinematics obtained with the simulated sizes were compared to the original inlay kinematics using descriptive statistics. Results For all size combinations, the difference to the original kinematics reached an average of 1.3 +/- 3.3 mm in translation and - 0.1 +/- 1.2 degrees in rotation with the CR implant. With the PS implant, the average differences reached 0.4 +/- 2.7 mm and - 0.2 +/- 0.8 degrees. Among all knees, no size combination consistently resulted in significantly different kinematics. Each knee showed a singular kinematic pattern. For both knee systems, the rotation was smaller than in the native knee, but the direction of the rotation was preserved. The PS showed more rollback and the CR less rollback than the native knee. Conclusion TKA systems designed with a constant tibio-femoral congruency among size combinations should enable to combine different sizes without having substantial impact on the kinematics. The rotational pattern was preserved by both TKA systems, while the rollback could only be maintained by the PS design.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0936-8051
• Sprache: Englisch