NuVasive to Present at 20th Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care ...( SAN DIEGO Nov. 19 /- NuVasive Inc. (N...),Health

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVA), a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, announced today that Alex Lukianov, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present at the 20th Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference at The New York Palace Hotel on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at 10:30 a.m. ET.

A live Web cast of the presentation will be available online from the investor relations page of the Company's corporate Web site at www.nuvasive.com. After the live Web cast, the presentation will remain available on NuVasive's Web site, www.nuvasive.com, for 30 days.

About NuVasive

NuVasive is a medical device company focused on the design, development and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders. The Company's product portfolio is focused on applications in the over $4.2 billion U.S. spine fusion market. The Company's current principal product offering includes a minimally disruptive surgical platform called Maximum Access Surgery, or MAS(R), as well as a growing offering of cervical and motion preservation products.

The MAS platform offers advantages for both patients and surgeons such as reduced surgery and hospitalization time and faster recovery. MAS combines three categories of current product offerings: NeuroVision(R) a proprietary software-driven nerve avoidance system; MaXcess(R) a unique split-blade design retraction system; and specialized implants, like SpheRx(R) and CoRoent(R), that collectively minimize soft tissue disruption during spine surgery while allowing maximum visualization and surgical reproducibility. NuVasive's produc
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