Cardiology Care for Camarillo, Just East on the 101
Living in Camarillo and wondering whether chest tightness on the morning walk, fatigue climbing the Conejo Grade, or palpitations after dinner deserve a cardiologist’s eye? If you have a pacemaker or defibrillator due for a check, recovered from a heart attack, or recently turned 50 and want a baseline read, the answer is usually yes.
Heart disease changes the rhythm of family life — not just for the person dealing with it, but for everyone around the kitchen table. The team at the Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions sees Camarillo patients who want decisions made carefully, options explained in plain terms, and a doctor who answers the phone. Our Camarillo cardiologists bring more than thirty years of practice and over 15,000 vascular and cardiac procedures to that conversation. Most patients drive in from Pleasant Valley or Mission Oaks, and we run on time.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
A first visit usually starts with a cardiac evaluation in our Tarzana office, about 35 minutes east on US-101 once you clear the Conejo grade. We work up Camarillo patients for coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, prior heart attacks, arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation, plus mitral valve disease and aortic valve disease. Ventura County patients often come to us for a second opinion before signing off on a stent, ablation, or valve procedure.
Camarillo Cardiac Specialists
Our Camarillo cardiologists have built their practice around people, not throughput. Patients drive in from Spanish Hills, Mission Oaks, Las Posas Estates and the Camarillo Heights — many referred by family physicians at Dignity Health or by colleagues at St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital. The work that matters most happens between the questions you ask and the answers we sit with you to talk through.
Be prepared.
Cardiac arrest does not wait for a hospital. If you live or work near Camarillo Premium Outlets, the Camarillo Airport business park, or any of the Cal State Channel Islands buildings, you are close to public AED cabinets — and learning how to use one matters. We tell every Camarillo family the same thing: buy an AED for the home if a relative has known heart disease, and write down the route to St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital on Lynn Road so nobody has to guess at 2 a.m.
If you are feeling chest pain or what feels like a runaway heartbeat right now, do not drive to Tarzana. Call 911, get to the nearest ER, and have someone call our office once you are stable.
A first appointment with a Camarillo patient starts with the basics: a physical exam, a careful read of your history, and the time to actually hear what symptoms have been bothering you. We ask about family history — heart attacks before 55 in a parent, sudden cardiac death in a sibling — and we go through every prescription you carry, including the over-the-counter ones people forget to mention. From the Tarzana office on Burbank Boulevard you are about a 35-minute drive west on US-101; we run on schedule, so plan the trip and the parking and you will not lose half a day. Blood work and urinalysis often happen the same visit so you are not making a second drive from Ventura County.
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.
Ventura County has a slightly older median age than Los Angeles County and a higher share of residents who work outdoors — farmworkers, growers, construction crews — which changes the cardiovascular conversation. Heat exposure, irregular hours, and the long commute over the Conejo Grade all show up in how Camarillo patients describe their symptoms. Our job at CACVI is to take that context seriously, run the right tests in-office, and give you a plan you can carry out without rearranging your life. Many of our diagnostic procedures happen the same morning you walk in, so you can drive back to Camarillo with answers rather than a follow-up referral.
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 Camarillo 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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