Cardica to Host Investor Briefing on 'Revolutionizing Revascul...( - Event to Be Webcast June 1...),Health

- Event to Be Webcast June 12 at 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time - - PAS-Port(R) System Clinical Data To Be Presented During Late Breaking News Session of International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced that it will webcast an investor briefing on the topic of "Revolutionizing Revascularization" on Thursday, June 12, at 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time in Boston. The event will feature a panel of renowned cardiovascular surgeons who will discuss how surgeons are integrating new techniques to improve coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures, including the use of Cardica's C-Port(R) Distal Anastomosis Systems, which are designed to allow surgeons to automate the attachment of blood vessel grafts during CABG procedures, replacing traditional hand-sewn sutures.

The Company also announced that data from the 220-patient prospective, randomized pivotal clinical trial of its PAS-Port(R) Proximal Anastomosis System will be presented at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) in Boston. The presentation, entitled "The Cardica PAS-Port Proximal Anastomotic Connector Device: First Report of the Results of the FDA Trial," will be given during the Late Breaking News session on Thursday, June 12, at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time by principal study investigator John D. Puskas, M.D., chief of cardiac surgery at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta. As previously announced, the trial, which compared graft vessel connections made using the PAS-Port system to conventional hand-sewn sutures during CABG procedures, a
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