Leg Pain Doctor Glendale
Vascular care and leg pain treatment for Glendale patients
Has the walk up Brand Boulevard started leaving your calves cramping? Are you waking up to a swollen leg, or finding a wound on your foot that just isn’t healing? Did your doctor at Adventist Health Glendale or Glendale Memorial flag a missing pulse? These are the questions we hear from Glendale patients almost every day.
The vascular specialists at the Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions (CACVI) treat the full range of leg pain Glendale patients bring in — from peripheral artery disease (PAD) and venous insufficiency to non-healing diabetic foot wounds, varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis, and limb-threatening ischemia. Leg pain isn’t a single diagnosis; it’s a symptom with a dozen possible causes, and we sort them out in one visit.
Find out the cause of your leg pain.
The Amputation Prevention Center
Every day, 230 Americans with diabetes lose a limb to amputation. Glendale’s Armenian-American community carries higher background rates of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome than the LA County average, which puts more residents in 91202 through 91208 into the high-risk category for non-healing wounds and PAD.
Mortality after a major amputation runs 13–40% at one year, 35–65% at three years, and 39–80% at five years — worse than most cancers. That’s why amputation-free survival is the metric that matters when a Glendale patient lands in our office with a diabetic foot wound or a discolored toe. Catching the ischemia early changes the curve.
At CACVI we run an amputation prevention center for north LA County, including Glendale. We’re board-certified consultants in endovascular intervention, with a focus on micro-vessel work below the knee — the small arteries that decide whether a foot wound heals or doesn’t. Most Glendale referrals come from Adventist Health Glendale on Wilson Terrace and Glendale Memorial Hospital on South Central Avenue.
Amputation carries its own high mortality risk — which is why we measure ourselves not by procedures performed but by limbs saved. Thousands of patients across north LA County, including Glendale, have kept walking on their own legs because we got to the artery in time. The Beverly Hills office is twenty minutes from Brand Boulevard.
You don't have to suffer with leg pain. Find out your treatment options.
Dr. Moinakhtar Lala and Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi
Meet Your Leg Pain Specialists
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.
