TransEnterix Announces Kitakyushu General Hospital Completes First Surgical Procedures with the Senhance Surgical System

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TransEnterix, Inc. (NYSE American:TRXC), a medical device company that is digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patient to improve minimally invasive surgery, today announced that the Kitakyushu General Hospital, a hospital in southwestern Japan, completed its first surgical procedures using the Senhance® Surgical System. The first patients were treated by Dr. Naoki Nagata, President of Kitakyushu General Hospital, and team across general and colorectal minimally invasive surgical procedures. TransEnterix had announced on January 29, 2020 that Kitakyushu General Hospital had entered into an agreement to lease and utilize a Senhance System.