Cardiology care for Garden Grove and Little Saigon
If your chest tightens climbing the stairs at home, if an Apple Watch reading flagged AFib, or if your bác sĩ in Garden Grove told you it was time to see a tim mạch (cardiologist) — our Beverly Hills office handles cases like yours every week.
Heart problems are heavy for the whole family, not just the patient — and in Garden Grove that family is often three generations under one roof. Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi and Dr. Moinakhtar Lala have performed more than 15,000 cardiac and vascular procedures across thirty-plus years of practice. We sit with you, explain the echocardiogram on the screen, and write the plan in plain language so the adult kids and grandkids in the room can follow along too.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
Most Garden Grove patients we see have one of three concerns: chest pressure they’ve been ignoring, a stress test their primary care doctor wants a second opinion on, or palpitations that started after a long stretch of poor sleep. From the 92840 and 92843 ZIP codes the drive to our LA Beverly Hills office runs roughly 45 minutes south on I-5 then west via CA-22 — most patients pick a midday slot to dodge the worst of the freeway. In a single visit we can run an in-office cardiac evaluation, EKG, and echocardiogram. Conditions we treat regularly for Garden Grove patients include coronary artery disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, heart attack, and mitral valve disease.
Garden Grove Cardiac Specialists
CACVI has been the referral choice for Garden Grove primary care offices for years, especially for patients in the Vietnamese-American community who have higher background rates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes than the OC average. Dr. Khorsandi or Dr. Lala reviews every new Garden Grove chart personally before the visit, so the first thirty minutes aren’t spent re-explaining what your referring physician already wrote.
Be prepared.
If you live in Garden Grove and someone collapses tonight, call 911 — the nearest emergency room is Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center on West Stewart Drive, about ten minutes from most of the city. For severe cardiac events the ambulance may route you to UCI Medical Center in Orange for cath-lab capability. Do not drive yourself.
Keeping a basic AED in larger homes or in community centers in Garden Grove 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, the cardiology follow-up at our Beverly Hills office picks up from there.
A first visit at our Beverly Hills office — about 45 minutes north of Garden Grove via I-5 and the I-405 — typically runs 60 to 90 minutes. We collect your history, the symptoms you’ve actually noticed (chest pressure, breathlessness on the stairs, swelling in the ankles), family history of early heart disease, and a full medication list. Most Garden Grove patients leave with an EKG and echocardiogram done the same day, plus labs ordered. The visit summary goes back to your Garden Grove primary care doctor 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.
Garden Grove’s Vietnamese-American population carries higher background rates of type 2 diabetes and uncontrolled hypertension than the OC average, which means more of you are walking into a first cardiology appointment already on three or four medications. Our job is to keep the regimen lean: confirm what the imaging actually supports, drop what it doesn’t, and check in twice a year so a four-drug stack doesn’t quietly grow into a seven-drug pile nobody on the care team can fully justify.
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 Garden Grove 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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