Cardiology care for Aliso Viejo and the south OC master plans
If chest tightness showed up during a hill rep on the Aliso Creek Trail, if your watch flagged AFib at rest, or if your primary care doctor at the Aliso Viejo Town Center medical group told you it’s time for a cardiology workup — our LA Beverly Hills office handles cases like yours weekly.
Most Aliso Viejo patients we see at CACVI fall into two groups: working parents in the 92656 ZIP code following up on a stress test flagged by their primary care doctor, and retirees from the gated communities off Pacific Park Drive who want to keep walking the Aliso and Wood Canyons trails without second-guessing every twinge. Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi and Dr. Moinakhtar Lala have performed more than 15,000 cardiac and vascular procedures across thirty-plus years of practice. They walk through the echocardiogram with you in the room, in plain language, while you’re still there.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
From the 92656 ZIP code our LA Beverly Hills office is roughly a 60-minute drive north via I-5 and CA-73, faster off-peak. Most Aliso Viejo patients pick a midday slot so they’re past the morning crawl through Irvine. In a single visit we run an in-office cardiac evaluation, EKG, and echocardiogram, and review the findings before you leave. Conditions we treat regularly for Aliso Viejo patients include coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, aortic valve disease, and heart arrhythmia.
Aliso Viejo Cardiac Specialists
For Aliso Viejo, the practical question is which cardiology group you can actually book without a six-week wait. Our Beverly Hills office holds same-week appointments for 92656 patients with acute symptoms. Dr. Khorsandi or Dr. Lala reads every new Aliso Viejo chart personally before the visit — which means the first half-hour is spent on what’s actually new, not on re-reading what your internist already documented.
Be prepared.
If you live in Aliso Viejo and your heart rhythm goes wrong tonight, the closest emergency room is Saddleback Medical Center on Health Center Drive in Laguna Hills — about 10 minutes south via Aliso Creek Road. That’s where 911 will take you, and you should not drive yourself. Saddleback is a STEMI-receiving center with 24/7 interventional cardiology.
Keeping a basic AED at home or in a gated-community clubhouse pays for itself the one time it matters — survival from sudden cardiac arrest drops roughly 10% for every minute without defibrillation. Once you’re stable after a cardiac event, our Beverly Hills office handles the cardiology follow-up so you’re not bouncing between teams.
A first visit at our Beverly Hills office — about an hour north of Aliso Viejo via I-5 and CA-73 — typically runs 60 to 90 minutes. We take your history, the symptoms you’ve actually noticed, family history of early heart disease, and your current medication list. Most Aliso Viejo patients leave with an EKG and echocardiogram done the same day so you don’t have to come back just for imaging. The visit summary goes to your Aliso Viejo primary care office within the week.
Protect your heart.
Trust Your Heart to Our Expert Care
On average, someone dies of cardiovascular disease (CVD) every 37 seconds in the U.S. There are 2,353 deaths from CVD each day, based on 2017 data.
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.
Aliso Viejo skews younger and more affluent than the OC average, with a heavy tilt toward dual-income professionals in their 30s and 40s. The cardiology questions we field here are usually about early atherosclerotic risk — statin or not, lipoprotein(a), coronary calcium scoring — rather than late-stage failure. Our job is to keep the workup proportional: not every elevated LDL needs a CT angiogram, and not every borderline stress test needs a cath. We give Aliso Viejo patients a straight answer.
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 Aliso Viejo 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.
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