Cardica’s Cardiac Anastomosis Device Featured in Clinical Presentation on Robotic Cardiac Bypass Procedures

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Cardica,
Inc. (Nasdaq:
CRDC) today reported that its C-Port® Flex-A®
Anastomosis System will be featured in a clinical presentation to
cardiothoracic surgeons this afternoon at the East Carolina Heart
Institute-International Society for Minimally Invasive
Cardiothoracic Surgery (ECHI-ISMICS) Summit in Greenville, North
Carolina. The presentation, entitled “Robotic Coronary
Revascularization: Connectors and Pearls,” will be given by
nationally-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, Husam Balkhy, M.D.,
director of the Center for Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac
Surgery at The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“Dr. Balkhy has been using our anastomosis systems to attach the
bypass graft vessels during minimally invasive cardiac surgery, for
many years, with remarkable success,” said Bernard A. Hausen, M.D.,
Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Cardica, Inc. “This
presentation offers other cardiothoracic surgeons the opportunity
to see first-hand the difference between a connector bypass
procedure using our automated anastomosis device compared to
hand-sewing the anastomosis.”

The presentation details how Dr. Balkhy uses Cardica’s C-Port
systems to perform a connector procedure, including selection of
graft vessels, a description of the features and benefits of the
C-Port system, and the mechanics of deployment during connector
procedures on a beating heart in the closed chest setting, also
known as a totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB)
procedure. In addition, Dr. Balkhy’s use of the C-Port systems is
described in the current peer-reviewed issue of The
Annals of Thoracic Surgery in an article entitled
“Integrating Coronary Anastomotic Connectors and Robotics Toward a
Totally Endoscopic Beating Heart Approach: Review of 120 Cases.”
Dr. Balkhy is a recog

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