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This study aims to identify the potential patients who were suitable for the kinematic (KA) or mechanical alignment (MA).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We reviewed 296 consecutive patients (296 TKAs, including 114 KA-TKAs and 182 MA-TKAs) who underwent unilateral TKA using a computer-assisted navigation from 2016 to 2018 in our prospectively maintained database. The minimum followup was 1 year. Clinical outcomes including the range of motion (ROM) and knee society score (KSS) were compared between KA-TKAs and MA-TKAs. Multiple regression models were used to evaluate the relationship between alignment techniques and KSS at the 1-year followup. Interaction and stratified analyses were conducted according to gender, age, body mass index (BMI), preoperative hip-knee-ankle (HKA) angle, ROM and KSS.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      ROM and KSS at the 1-year followup didn\u2019t differ between MA-TKAs and KA-TKAs (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&gt;\u20090.05). Alignment techniques did not associate with postoperative ROM (Adjusted \u03b2\u2009=\u20090.4, 95% confidence interval [CI]: \u2212\u20090.3, 1.6;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u20090.752) or 1-year KSS (Adjusted \u03b2\u2009=\u20092.2, 95%CI: \u2212\u20090.7, 5.6;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u20090.107). Patients with a BMI more than 30\u2009kg\/m^2 achieved better 1-year KSS when using MA than KA (p for interaction&lt;\u20090.05). Additionally, patients with preoperative HKA angle more than 10 degrees varus benefited more from KA than MA (p for interaction&lt;\u20090.05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Patients with severe varus deformity may be suitable for the KA technique, whereas MA should be used in obese patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12891-020-03472-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,7]],"date-time":"2020-07-07T10:02:59Z","timestamp":1594116179000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["How to choose kinematic or mechanical alignment individually according to preoperative characteristics of patients?"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Chong","family":"Luan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dong-Tan","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ning-Jie","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fei-Fei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kang-Song","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xian-Bin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"3472_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"192","DOI":"10.1007\/s11420-018-9614-8","volume":"14","author":"CA Kahlenberg","year":"2018","unstructured":"Kahlenberg CA, Nwachukwu BU, McLawhorn AS, Cross MB, Cornell CN, Padgett DE. 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