Cardica: Rebuilding the Cardiac Surgery Market
Executive Summary
The predicted expansion of beating-heart and minimally-invasive cardiac surgery never materialized, a result, some say, of the lack of safe and effective automated anastomotic tools. Cardica believes it has the answer that can at long last grow this market.
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