Cardiology for Laguna Hills, Leisure World, and South Orange County
Laguna Hills runs from the rolling neighborhoods around El Toro Road down through the gated streets of Nellie Gail Ranch, and the median patient here is older than most of California. If you have a pacemaker or defibrillator due for review, are recovering from a heart attack, or want a second opinion before agreeing to a procedure a Saddleback cardiologist has recommended, an hour of driving may be worth it.
Heart conditions wear on a family — the spouse who watches every meal, the adult children flying in from out of state. The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions has spent over thirty years and 15,000-plus procedures helping older patients work through coronary, valve and rhythm decisions. Our Laguna Hills cardiologists are in Beverly Hills, an hour north on the I-5 — far enough to be a deliberate choice, close enough to make the round trip in a morning.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
A Laguna Hills patient typically opens with a cardiac evaluation in our Beverly Hills office. We treat coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, prior heart attack, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, mitral valve disease and aortic valve disease. South Orange County patients usually come to us for a second read before a stent, ablation, or valve replacement gets scheduled at Saddleback or Hoag.
Laguna Hills Cardiac Specialists
Our Laguna Hills cardiologists see patients from Leisure World, Moulton Ranch, Nellie Gail and the surrounding south OC neighborhoods. Many were referred by friends in the same retirement village, by adult children who heard about us from a Tarzana neighbor, or by a primary care doctor who wanted an outside look. We have treated patients from across the country and across the world; the local ones get the same long visit and the same honest read.
Be prepared.
Saddleback Medical Center on Crown Valley Parkway is the closest 24-hour ER for most of Laguna Hills — under ten minutes from anywhere in the city, with a cath lab on site. Keep that route in your phone, not on a piece of paper in the kitchen drawer. We recommend any household with a known cardiac history buy an AED and run through the steps with the spouse, the caregiver, and the adult children when they visit.
If chest pain is happening now, or your heartbeat has gone fast and chaotic, dial 911 and head to Saddleback. The drive to Beverly Hills is for planning, not for an emergency.
An initial visit runs about an hour and stays unhurried — most south OC patients are flying down freeways for fifty miles to see us, and we treat the trip as a real investment of their time. We do the physical exam, take a careful history, and ask about every medication including the supplements pushed by friends at the gym or the club. From Laguna Hills, take the I-5 north to the 405 to the 90 — about 60 minutes outside of peak traffic. Book a 9 a.m. slot and you are home for lunch. We pull labs the same visit when possible.
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.
Laguna Hills carries one of the older median ages in California, with a sizeable share of residents in active retirement. That shapes everything we look at — calcium scores, valve function, AFib screening, statin tolerance, and the question of whether an aggressive intervention actually buys quality time. We will not over-treat, and we will not under-treat. Our job is to read the imaging, run the in-office tests, and walk you through what the evidence actually supports — including when the right answer is to keep doing what you are doing.
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 Laguna Hills 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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