Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient ... as well as better patient satisfaction when compared to an open procedure. In ...

The chordae tendineae (CT), often referred to as the “heart strings,” are thin, tendinous structures that connect the heart valves to the papillary muscles, ensuring proper valve function. When these ...

[11] With these advances, robotic mitral valve surgery may become a procedure worth adopting due to the growing population of patients demanding the procedure. It is possible that robotic mitral ...

patients are at risk for heart failure. In patients with mitral valve prolapse, mitral valve repair is nearly always possible, and the majority of these patients are candidates for robotic surgery." ...

Intuitive customers are showing increased interest in cardiac surgery, and it's invested in robotic heart surgery startup ...

The robotic arms are controlled by a surgeon who operates from a console in the operating room. This technique is used to treat a wide range of heart conditions, including coronary artery disease and ...

a leaking mitral valve is tolerated well by the heart for a long period of time and may only become evident when the body becomes stressed by another illness. Whenever possible, we try to repair ...

Capstan Medical’s robot platform has been used for the first in-human robotic assisted transcatheter mitral valve replacement procedures, confirming the company’s credentials in joining the ...

Santiago Garcia, Director, Structural Heart Program at ... bringing together novel heart valve implants and advanced catheter technology, fully enabled through a robotic platform, to treat a ...

based Los Robles Health System, performed the first robotic ... Artificial Heart. 3. A team from Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement ...