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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today reported financial results and corporate progress for its fiscal 2008 second quarter and six months ended December 31, 2007.
"We continue to make excellent commercial progress, with over 1,000
C-Port systems shipped in the past quarter for the first time, an expanding
product line designed to enable minimally-invasive cardiac surgery and
substantial advancement for our development-stage products," said Bernard
A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Cardica,
Inc. "Moving forward, we will build on our momentum with a significant
presence at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
next week where we will feature our reloadable, cartridge-based C-Port(R)
xA X-CHANGE(TM) system, host a joint robotic seminar with Intuitive
Surgical, participate in a physician education event featuring our
anastomosis products and train surgeons on the use of our devices at STS
University."
Recent Highlights and Accomplishments
Commercial Progress
-- Trained a total of 232 surgeons on C-Port(R) Distal Anastomosis Systems
since product introduction;
-- Increased cumulative worldwide shipments of C-Port systems to over
3,600 units, with more than 1,000 units sold in the fiscal 2008 second
quarter;
-- Increased cumulative worldwide shipments of PAS-Port(R) Proximal
Anastomosis Systems to over 7,300 units, with more than 560 units sold
in the fiscal 2008 second quarter, of which the vast majority of units
were deployed in Japan;
-- Reported data at the 2007 American Heart Association Scientific
Sessions demonstratin
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