Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: Indications, Alignment and Complications

Clinical lecture slides on primary total knee arthroplasty by Jatinder S. Luthra: prosthetic design from constrained hinged to cruciate-retaining and posterior-stabilised implants, patient selection and indications, ligamentous deficiency and release grading, component rotation and the Q angle, patellofemoral alignment, aseptic loosening as the most common complication, and surgical exposure, balancing and closure principles.