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Alignment is crucial for successful knee arthroplasty.1 Tibia malunion will make arthroplasty more challenging. In this case, we present advanced knee osteoarthritis with tibia vara due to malunion that needs corrective osteotomy during knee arthroplasty. ## Case Presentation: A 70 years old female presented to our office complaining pain in both knees markedly on the left, profoundly felt during walking. She has a history of being hit by motorcycle 15 months ago and left knee was more bent since then. Physical examination of the left knee showed severe varus, mild effusion, tenderness on medial tibial condyle, otherwise normal. Plain radiographs showed advanced bilateral knee osteoarthritis with left proximal tibia malunion. Patient underwent left knee arthroplasty with corrective tibia and fibula osteotomy. ## Solutions and Outcome: Patient underwent closed wedge tibial osteotomy together with fibula osteotomy followed by knee arthroplasty with posterior-stabilized implant and tibial stem extension in a single surgery. Tibial osteotomy was reinforced using plate and screws. Partial weight bearing was achieved in second postoperative day and discharged on the third day. Patient ab

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Author

Nyoman Aditya Sindunata; Prettysia Suvarly; Rio Aditya; John Butarbutar

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)