Explores how preoperative alignment affects outcomes in total ankle arthroplasty, indicating important considerations for surgical management.
Total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) has become an increasingly accepted surgical option for the management of endstage ankle arthritis, offering pain relief and restoration of motion while preserving more physiological gait patterns than ankle arthrodesis.Over the past 2 decades, advances in implant design, surgical technique, and perioperative management have resulted in improved outcomes and implant survivorship. 1)espite these advances, preoperative coronal deformity remains an important consideration in TAA.
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