By Town Crier Staff Report
 El Camino Hospital interventional cardiologists, at the operating table from left, Drs. Frederick St. Goar, Raymond Shaheen and James Joye, demonstrate innovative, minimally invasive procedures for peripheral vascular disease via satellite broadcast for a large international audience of physicians. |
El Camino Hospital interventional cardiologists’ skill with advanced techniques for peripheral vascular disease recently won them the opportunity to perform before an international audience of their peers.
Drs. Frederick St. Goar, Raymond Shaheen and James Joye were the only West Coast team among 25 leading medical centers from around the world demonstrating innovative procedures by live satellite broadcast to the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s 17th Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17.
The team performed interventional procedures, including carotid arterial stenting, cryoplasty and laser-assisted angioplasty, routinely performed at El Camino Hospital for opening totally occluded arteries in patients with peripheral vascular disease. All procedures went smoothly, team leader Joye said.
Peripheral vascular disease is the overarching term for circulation disorders in blood vessels other than those in the heart and brain. It is often a narrowing of vessels that carry blood to the legs, arms, stomach or kidneys. Examples are Raynaud’s disease and peripheral artery disease.
The El Camino team has performed the minimally invasive procedures for other medical education meetings, but this demonstration took place before the largest gathering of vascular specialists in the world.
Joye, director of the hospital’s catheterization laboratories, said, “It was a thrill to reach such a large, international audience and be recognized for El Camino Hospital’s leadership in this treatment area.”
Joye has performed more than 500 carotid arterial stenting procedures and taken part in many of the clinical trials that led to the procedure’s FDA approval last year. He has been instrumental in training other vascular interventional specialists, including vascular surgeons, radiologists and interventional cardiologists, in that procedure.
