Need a Trusted Cardiologist to Help You Take Control of Your Heart Health?

Cardiology care for Hermosa Beach and the South Bay coast

If your watch flagged an irregular rhythm on a Strand run, if chest tightness has been showing up during a Hermosa CrossFit session, or if your internist on Pier Avenue mentioned your stress test wasn’t quite clean — our Beverly Hills office is the closest CACVI location, about 30 minutes north on the 405.

Hermosa Beach skews active, athletic, and a little younger than the South Bay average — cyclists, surfers, runners, and a fair number of fit 40- and 50-somethings who land in cardiology after a watch alert or a primary-care lipid panel they weren’t expecting. Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi and Dr. Moinakhtar Lala have more than thirty years of combined cardiac and vascular practice and 15,000-plus procedures between them. The visit format matters here: one doctor in the room, no rotating fellows, imaging read on screen with you, and a plan in writing before you leave for the 405 south.

Find out the cause of your heart condition.

Most Hermosa Beach patients we see fall into one of three buckets: athletes with a watch-flagged arrhythmia, mid-life professionals working out at Pier Plaza or Manhattan Beach Studios who want a baseline before symptoms appear, and longtime residents with a family history that’s starting to surface. Our team can perform a cardiac evaluation — physical exam, EKG, echocardiogram, exercise stress test — in a single visit at our Beverly Hills office, about 30 minutes from Hermosa via the 405 north. For Hermosa patients we hold early-morning slots so you’re back at the beach before the afternoon onshore breeze picks up.

Hermosa Beach Cardiac Specialists

Both cardiologists are board-certified and fellowship-trained, with published research in the journals their academic peers cite. For our Hermosa Beach patients the meaningful difference is access — one cardiologist in the room for the whole visit, time to talk through every image, and a written summary back to your Pier Avenue internist or Beach Cities Health District provider the same day.

Be prepared.

Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance is the closest full-service cardiac ER for most Hermosa Beach residents, and Torrance Memorial Medical Center is right next door. Both handle acute chest pain well. Neither has the outpatient cardiology follow-up bandwidth that keeps you out of the ER the next time. If you were discharged from either with a “follow up with cardiology” note, that’s exactly the appointment type we hold time for. Hermosa households should also know how to use an AED — sudden cardiac arrest survival drops about 10% per minute before defibrillation, and the Strand walk-streets can slow paramedic access from PCH.

The first visit for a Hermosa Beach patient generally runs 60 to 90 minutes. We start with the history — family events, current medications, training load, what symptoms show up at what intensity — then move to the physical exam, EKG, and an echocardiogram if it’s indicated. If you have recent imaging at Torrance Memorial or Providence, bring the disc or send a release ahead of time. The Beverly Hills office is at 8741 Alden Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90048; from Hermosa, the 405 north to Wilshire is the cleanest route — about 30 minutes outside peak hours.

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Hermosa Beach’s adult population skews healthier than the LA County average on most risk factors — lower smoking rates, lower obesity, higher exercise frequency. The risk picture we see in our Hermosa patients is different: occult coronary disease in fit athletes, watch-detected arrhythmias that turn out to be benign more often than not, and inherited cholesterol disorders that don’t show up until a calcium score. Most of those are easier to manage with early evaluation than to chase after a symptom forces the issue.

High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and smoking are key risk factors for heart disease. About half of Americans (47%) have at least one of these three risk factors.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Our goal at CACVI is to help you achieve healthier living. As a stepping stone to healthier living, our physicians perform a variety of tests right here in our office. Our in-office diagnostic procedures can help our physicians and you determine a course of treatment that may help you improve your health and wellness for a better quality of living.

CACVI’s experienced cardiologists are determined to provide each patient with experienced, compassionate care as they work diligently to improve your health.

Dr. Moinakhtar Lala and Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi

Meet Your Hermosa Beach Cardiologists

The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions (CACVI) is led by Dr. Khorsandi and Dr. Lala, who have over thirty years of practice with over 15,000 vascular and cardiac procedures performed. Our physicians are determined to provide each patient with experienced, compassionate care as they work diligently to improve your health.

What our patients say

4.3 Based on 22 Google reviews

Michael Prae

A little blonde Russian woman named Natasha asked me to post about her renal procedure. It was done by Dr. Khorsandi at CACVI. They took absolutely amazing care of her and went above and beyond to treat her terribly high blood pressure. They lasered her renal artery. After the procedure it wouldn’t stop bleeding so they ended up staying w her at the center until 9pm. That’s when they finally had to call the ambulance to move her to E.R. All of the staff were incredibly professional and their care was second to none. Dr. Lala promised her that her high blood pressure would go away. It has and now she’s throwing out all her old med’s just like Lala promised. This group of Doctors is like no other. If you have any of these cardiac issues then you’ve found your saving grace. No need to look any further. They were incredibly patient and helpful in every medical way possible. Natasha has found a new way of living. Without her terrible pounding migraines she had on a daily basis. 5 stars all the way. They deserve all the praise possible. They provided a miracle. Thank you Dr’s Lala & Khorsandi.

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Nick Derian

On behalf of my father, a patient of CACVI, I wanted to acknowledge and praise the entire team of this organization for its outstanding surgical expertise and knowledgeable/warm supporting staff. We had gone through countless recommendations that all claimed there was only one last option for treatment, amputation. That news is devastating for anyone to hear, and resulted in my father having little faith that the quality of his life would ever be the same... All that changed the moment we had our first interaction with this organization. The care, knowledge, and most importantly hope that there was still options if we acted fast was single moment that turned this entire nightmare around. Thank you CACVI for being the single most important piece to solving my father's health crisis. Dont think twice, make the appointment and atleast go meet and see them-- for us it was the moment that changed the trajectory of our situation forever for the better.

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Matt Golad

I’m 41 years old, and I have something called May-Thurner’s Syndrome. However, it wasn’t until I saw Dr. Vasim Lala a couple years ago that I was diagnosed with it. May-Thurner’s syndrome is when the main veins that split off into your legs is compressed by the main arteries that split off into your legs. The result is that the blood that should be coming back up through the leg veins pools at your ankles. My whole life until I was diagnosed, I was lethargic. My legs felt heavy. I started to develop purple bruising around my ankles in my twenties. I started to get varicose veins on my calves. I thought this was normal. I was living on “hard mode” and didn’t know it. If I was on my feet for extended periods of time, my legs would swell a lot. I thought maybe I need to lose some weight. When I started teaching a few years ago, I would be on my feet 6-8 hours a day. One day, I got home, and my left leg was so swollen my wife was concerned I had a blood clot. I went to the emergency room, and thankfully it was just superficial. I temporarily went on blood thinners and was recommended to see Dr. Lala. He changed my life. I’d shown my purpling ankles to GP’s. They’d seen my varicose veins. But none if them put all the signs together until I saw Dr. Lala. He diagnosed me with May-Thurner’s syndrome and recommend we put stents in my veins to prevent them from being compressed by the arteries. So we did the surgeries. Out patient procedures. My legs stopped swelling a lot. I started wearing compression socks. I had to be on blood thinners for a year, but eventually I was able to stop taking them which was great. But I still had varicose veins in my legs because they had widened from the blood pooling in them for years. I’ve had two ablations per leg since them, which closes the affected veins, and I’ve got a new lease on life. My legs feel lighter. They don’t swell nearly as much. The varicose veins have disappeared. Now, I’m lighter on my feet. I’m not lethargic. There’s a pep in my step. I have one more ablation each being scheduled. I’m thankful for Dr. Lala and his incredible team at CACVI for their diagnosis and treatment. It truly changed my life.

4 months ago Tarzana Read on Google

PAK SHIP ALL

On August 27, 2025, I had my leg Angio done with Dr. K. who is best of the best. Amazing Doctor and extremely knowledgeable. The nurse who helped me, JULIAN she has a very kind heart. She has a lot of knowledge and made me feel extremely relaxed. She went above and beyond her responsibilities. It seems God made her to be kind and caring for all the patients. I salute her and look forward to having same nurse for procedure in my other leg. I came home with a big Smile. Thank you Thank you Thank you

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Dr. M Lala, Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi and Dr. V Lala

Meet Your Specialists

The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions (CACVI) is led by Dr. M Lala, Dr. Khorsandi, and Dr. V Lala, who have over thirty years of practice with over 15,000 vascular and cardiac procedures performed. Our physicians are determined to provide each patient with experienced, compassionate care as they work diligently to improve your health.