Cardiology care for Los Alamitos and Rossmoor
If chest pressure has been showing up during your morning walk near the Joint Forces Training Base, if your watch flagged an irregular rhythm during a stroll near the racetrack, or if your internist in Los Alamitos told you it’s time to see a cardiologist — our LA Beverly Hills office handles cases like yours every week.
Most Los Alamitos patients we see at CACVI fall into two groups: working parents in the 90720 ZIP code following up on a stress test their internist flagged, and retirees from Rossmoor and Old Town who want to keep walking the racetrack neighborhood without worrying about how their heart will hold up. 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 in the exam room and walk through the echocardiogram while you’re still there — not a fellow, not a PA.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
From Los Alamitos, our LA Beverly Hills office is roughly a 40-minute drive north on the I-405, faster mid-morning. Most patients pick a 10 a.m. slot so they’re past the worst of the freeway crawl through Long Beach. In a single visit we can run an in-office cardiac evaluation, EKG, and echocardiogram, then walk through what we found before you leave. Conditions we treat regularly for Los Alamitos patients include coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, mitral valve disease, and heart arrhythmia.
Los Alamitos Cardiac Specialists
For Los Alamitos and Rossmoor, 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 90720 patients presenting with acute symptoms. Dr. Khorsandi or Dr. Lala reads every new Los Alamitos chart personally before the visit, which keeps the first half-hour focused on what’s actually new.
Be prepared.
If you live in Los Alamitos and your heart rhythm goes wrong tonight, the closest emergency room is Los Alamitos Medical Center on Katella Avenue — typically five minutes from anywhere in 90720. That’s where 911 will take you, and you should not drive yourself. The medical center is a designated STEMI receiving facility.
Keeping a basic AED at home or in a Rossmoor neighborhood 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 picks up the cardiology follow-up.
A first visit at our Beverly Hills office — about 40 minutes north of Los Alamitos via I-405 — typically runs 60 to 90 minutes. We collect your history, the cardiac symptoms you’ve actually noticed, family history of early MI, and your current medication list. Most patients get an EKG and echocardiogram during the same visit, so you leave knowing whether you need a stress test, a Holter monitor, or a six-month recheck. We send the visit summary back to your Los Alamitos 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.
Los Alamitos and Rossmoor skew older and more affluent than the OC average, which means we catch more coronary disease early enough for medical management — but it also means more retirees walk in already managing five or six cardiac medications. Our job is to keep the regimen lean: confirm what the imaging supports, drop what it doesn’t, and check in twice a year so a manageable stack doesn’t quietly grow into a polypharmacy problem that 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 Los Alamitos 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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