Capstan Medical says a surgeon has conducted the first successful catheter-delivered mitral valve replacement using the company’s nitinol-enabled implant and robotics platform. [Photo courtesy ...

Capstan’s platform combines surgical robots with catheter-based technology. Image credit: Shutterstock / LightField Studios. Capstan Medical’s robot platform has been used for the first in-human ...

Capstan Medical CEO Maggie Nixon recently offered us an update on her structural heart surgical robotics startup’s technology and her perspective on minimally invasive medtech. In that same interview, ...

Capstan Medical today said it has successfully completed its first in-human, robot-assisted transcatheter mitral valve replacements. The Santa Cruz, Calif.-based company claimed that it was “the first ...

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Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Capstan Medical said it has been working to merge surgical robotics with catheter-based technology using materials such as nitinol, as well as next-generation implants.

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