Mitral valve disease is a condition that affects the mitral valve, causing blood to leak backward or flow too slowly, and can ...

The mitral valve is a one-way path between the upper and lower left heart chambers that opens and closes to direct oxygenated ...

Capstan Medical, a startup focused on robotic-assisted mitral and tricuspid valve replacement, recently completed its first ...

The most widely known is the aortic valve. It allows the flow of blood from the heart's left ventricle to the largest blood vessel in the body, the aorta. Oxygenated blood from the heart is pumped ...

A STUDY assessing coronary proximity in patients undergoing transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) with ...

which includes dysfunction from any one of the heart’s four valves. Capstan’s method starts with conventional catheter ...

WHEN Greg Hutton went to his dentist to have a tooth removed, he never imagined that it could nearly end his life – not once, ...

"Today marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of structural heart therapy," Capstan Medical CEO Maggie Nixon said.

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis.

Capstan Medical announced its first in-human cardiac valve replacements using its catheter-based robotic surgical platform.