Procedure Enabled by Innovative Cardica Technology to be Featured at STS/AATS Tech-Con 2016
January 21, 2016
Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq:CRDC) today announced the company’s MicroCutter XCHANGE® 30 surgical stapler, with a shaft diameter of 5 millimeters and the capability to articulate 80 degrees, will be featured in a presentation describing a cutting-edge lobectomy technique at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American Association for Thoracic Surgery’s Tech Conference (Tech-Con) to be held January 23-24 in Phoenix, Ariz.
Tech-Con focuses on cutting-edge devices and procedures that have not yet been widely adopted by cardiothoracic surgeons.
A “Lung Surgery of the Future” presentation by Joel Dunning, M.D., cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Middlesbrough, U.K., will describe Microlobectomy, the less-invasive technique Dr. Dunning pioneered for video-assisted lung surgery, or VATS, which is enabled by Cardica’s MicroCutter XCHANGE 30.
Dr. Dunning’s presentation, titled, “Microlobectomy: A Novel Form of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy,” is scheduled at 2:05 p.m. MST, Saturday January 23, in room 120D in the Phoenix Convention Center.
About the MicroCutter XCHANGE 30
The MicroCutter XCHANGE 30, the world’s first and only five-millimeter surgical stapler that articulates to 80 degrees, is a cartridge-based minimally invasive surgical stapling system. The device’s small size and articulation range is designed to enhance the surgeon’s access and visualization at the surgical site, and to mitigate limitations on the advancement of minimally invasive surgical approaches created by larger stapling devices. As the smallest-profile articulating stapler available today, the MicroCutter XCHANGE 30 may reduce the amount of dissection and tissue handling required to position the stapler in confined spaces, enabling access to difficult-to-reach anatomy.
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