The PCL significantly affects the functional outcome of total knee arthroplasty☆
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Materials and methods
We identified 49 patients of the senior author (BSP) who had undergone primary, unilateral knee replacement using a single design of knee prosthesis (AMK, DePuy, Warsaw, IN). In the first group, consisting of 28 patients, the knee prosthesis was implanted with retention of the posterior cruciate ligament at a time when this implant was not available with a cruciate substituting option. A second group, consisting of 21 patients receiving prostheses of the same design with a posterior stabilized
Results
The average age of the patients in the PCL-retaining group was 72.3 ± 3.1years (n = 28) compared to 69.2 ± 2.9 years in the PS group (n = 21). There was no significant differences between patients in the PCL-retaining and the PS groups in terms of age (P = .48) or sex (P = .78) (Table 1). The PCL-retaining group had average SF-36 and AKS scores of 57.7 ± 4.6 and 94.6 ± 2.4, respectively compared to the PS group with 61.4 ± 5.2 and 89.4 ± 3.7 (P = .60 and P = .29 respectively). From the ADL
Discussion
Our study design allows us to differentiate between 2 fundamentally different methods of achieving rollback with flexion without the compounding influences of differences in surgical technique, operating surgeon, or implant design that have been shortcomings of most, if not all, previous studies. Through the use of cohorts in which the same prosthesis was implanted by the same surgeon, we have demonstrated that there are few differences between PCL-retaining and PS knee replacements in terms of
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2018, Journal of ArthroplastyCitation Excerpt :However, Misra et al [17] found results questioning the need for a competent PCL in the CR design all together when they found no difference in outcomes when retaining or resecting the PCL in CR designed knees. Despite those results, it is unlikely that the PCL plays no role in kinematic control of the knee as found from a large cohort of literature [8,17,18,34,35]. Failure of the PCL in a CR TKA is rarely clearly reported in the literature, but typically leads to a revision surgery with a more constrained design if symptomatic [32,36].
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