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<LEGEND>
     This Schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from the
Form 10-QSB of Gish  Biomedical,  Inc., for the nine months ended March 31, 2000
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.

</LEGEND>
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