Are you searching for a cardiologist near Downey?
Our Beverly Hills office is roughly 30 minutes north of Downey on the I-5 and I-105. Same-week slots hold for chest pain, post-hospital follow-up from Downey Regional or Kaiser Downey, and pacemaker checks. Routine new-patient appointments book within two weeks.
Chest tightness during a Saturday walk at the Downey Promenade. Shortness of breath after climbing a flight of stairs at home. A racing pulse that wakes you up at 3 a.m. Downey is a working family town – parents holding down two jobs, multigenerational households along Paramount and Lakewood – and the cardiac questions we get reflect that life: high blood pressure that went unchecked, AFib detected at a routine visit, and follow-up care for a parent recently discharged with a stent. We also see steady volume on pacemaker and defibrillator management.
In Downey’s Latino-majority households, the whole family arrives at the cardiac appointment. The patient. The bilingual adult kid. Sometimes a sister or cousin who works in healthcare and has questions written down. At the Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions, we are built for that visit. Thirty-plus years of practice. More than 15,000 cardiac and vascular procedures. We slow down, repeat what matters, write down the plan, and we do not move on until everyone in the room knows what is next.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
Downey patients typically reach us through Kaiser Downey, Downey Regional Medical Center referrals, the PIH Health network nearby, or a primary care doctor along Florence or Imperial. Many appointments are booked by an adult child after a parent’s hypertension finally pushed past the threshold. We run the cardiac evaluation in-office and treat coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, post-heart attack care, arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, mitral valve, and aortic valve disease. From Downey, the drive north on the 5 and 105 to our Beverly Hills office runs about 30 minutes off-peak.
Downey Cardiac Specialists
Our Downey cardiologists see longtime Southeast LA families, employees at the old Space Industries campus and the Rancho Los Amigos rehab community, plus patients arriving from Mexico for procedures. Same standard of care for everyone, with bilingual support and time on the schedule for the family conversation.
Be prepared.
Every school, gym, restaurant, and warehouse around Downey should have an AED on the wall. They are not expensive and they save lives in the few minutes between someone collapsing and the paramedics arriving from Stonewood or the Downey Fire stations.
If you have chest pain right now, or a chaotic racing pulse with breathlessness, call 911. Downey Regional Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Downey are the closest cardiac ERs. Call us as soon as you are stable for the cardiology follow-up.
A first appointment for a Downey patient runs about 60 minutes at our Beverly Hills office. We begin with a thorough physical exam. From there we walk through your medical history in English or Spanish – cardiac symptoms, family heart disease (particularly important because Hispanic adults carry higher rates of early-onset Type 2 diabetes), medications, kidney function, and other chronic conditions. EKG and echocardiogram are standard on the first visit. The drive up the 5 to the 105 is about 30 minutes.
Protect your heart.
Trust Your Heart to Our Expert Care
Cardiovascular disease kills one American every 37 seconds. 2,353 deaths a day. The 90240-90242 ZIP codes around Downey carry above-average rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Combined with the working-family schedule that delays preventive care, that profile drives a steady stream of late-stage cardiac diagnoses. Early cardiology care moves the curve.
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.
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 Downey 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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