CARDICA ANNOUNCES WEBCAST OF INTERNATIONALLY-RENOWNED CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON, DR. SUDHIR SRIVASTAVA, PERFORMING ROBOTIC CARDIAC BYPASS SURGERY USING REVOLUTIONARY ANASTOMOSIS DEVICE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – November 25, 2008 -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced the webcast of a robot-assisted, closed-chest coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure performed by internationally-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon Sudhir Srivastava, M.D., of the University of Chicago Medical Center, using Cardica's C-Port^® Flex-A^® Anastomosis System. Husam H. Balkhy, M.D., chairman of the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery and head of the robotics program at The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, moderates the procedure and explains critical aspects of the surgery. The 75-minute webcast of this minimally-invasive surgery can be viewed on www.OR-Live.com and accessed through Cardica's website at www.cardica.com.

During the procedure, Dr. Srivastava used Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci^® Surgical System robot in combination with Cardica's C-Port Flex-A system, an automated device that deploys tiny, stainless steel staples to attach the bypass vessel graft to the coronary artery, a connection known as an anastomosis. By automating the attachment of blood vessel grafts, the C-Port Flex-A system replaces traditional hand-sewn sutures. The robotic CABG procedure was performed off-pump, meaning while the heart is still beating, without the need to use a heart-lung machine and without the need to create a sternotomy, which splits the breastbone (sternum) to gain access to the heart.

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CARDICA ANNOUNCES WEBCAST OF INTERNATIONALLY-RENOWNED CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON, DR. SUDHIR SRIVASTAVA, PERFORMING ROBOTIC CARDIAC BYPASS SURGERY USING REVOLUTIONARY ANASTOMOSIS DEVICE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – November 25, 2008 -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced the webcast of a robot-assisted, closed-chest coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure performed by internationally-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon Sudhir Srivastava, M.D., of the University of Chicago Medical Center, using Cardica's C-Port^® Flex-A^® Anastomosis System. Husam H. Balkhy, M.D., chairman of the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery and head of the robotics program at The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, moderates the procedure and explains critical aspects of the surgery. The 75-minute webcast of this minimally-invasive surgery can be viewed on www.OR-Live.com and accessed through Cardica's website at www.cardica.com.

During the procedure, Dr. Srivastava used Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci^® Surgical System robot in combination with Cardica's C-Port Flex-A system, an automated device that deploys tiny, stainless steel staples to attach the bypass vessel graft to the coronary artery, a connection known as an anastomosis. By automating the attachment of blood vessel grafts, the C-Port Flex-A system replaces traditional hand-sewn sutures. The robotic CABG procedure was performed off-pump, meaning while the heart is still beating, without the need to use a heart-lung machine and without the need to create a sternotomy, which splits the breastbone (sternum) to gain access to the heart.

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