“…Furthermore, if Asian patients have certain demographic and anatomical characteristics known to affect clinical outcomes, special strategies to accom modate the unique nature of Asian patients may be required for preoperative patient counseling, prosthesis design, surgical technique, and postoperative rehabilitation. At the same time, considering the wide variances reported even within the same ethnicity group [16,18,25], treating Asian patients undergoing TKA similarly to patients from the West may render better outcomes in function and longevity, because the Western patient population is generally a diverse group, and treatment has evolved to best accommodate this diversity.…”