REDWOOD CITY, Calif., January 4, 2008 -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced that leading cardiac surgeons from The Wisconsin Heart Hospital and Centennial Medical Center in Nashville will webcast a live off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure as well as a recently taped port-access robotic CABG procedure using innovative anastomotic devices from Cardica, Inc. The approximately 75-minute live webcast will be available on www.OR-Live.com on Thursday, January 17, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time to medical professionals. A replay will be available for 180 days following the live presentation to interested parties.   MORE...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., January 4, 2008 -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced that leading cardiac surgeons from The Wisconsin Heart Hospital and Centennial Medical Center in Nashville will webcast a live off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure as well as a recently taped port-access robotic CABG procedure using innovative anastomotic devices from Cardica, Inc. The approximately 75-minute live webcast will be available on www.OR-Live.com on Thursday, January 17, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time to medical professionals. A replay will be available for 180 days following the live presentation to interested parties.

During the webcast, Husam H. Balkhy, M.D. chairman of the department of cardiac surgery of The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, will perform a beating heart procedure using Cardica's C-Port xA® and C-Port® Flex A™ Distal Anastomosis Systems. The innovative C-Port anastomosis systems are designed to allow surgeons to automate the attachment of blood vessel grafts, replacing traditional hand-sewn sutures.

In addition to the live surgery, Louis A. (Trey) Brunsting III, M.D., cardiothoracic surgeon at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, will present recently taped video footage that shows a robotic closed-chest bypass procedure using the C-Port Flex A system in combination with the Intuitive da Vinci® Surgical System. This procedure was done on a 56-year-old male patient with a blockage of his left anterior descending and diagonal vessels. To date, Dr. Brunsting has performed several closed chest procedures using the Cardica device.

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