Cardiologist Care for Montebello and East LA
Montebello is a thirty-year town for a lot of families — the same houses on Maple, Beverly, and Montebello Boulevard passed down through generations. If chest pressure has been showing up on the walk to Cesar Chavez High, if shortness of breath is making the stairs harder, or if you have a pacemaker or defibrillator due for a check, you do not need to wait. A cardiologist is a short drive west.
Heart problems are heavy — on the patient first, then on the spouse, the kids, the abuela who already lost a husband to one. The team at the Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions has worked through that conversation with Montebello and East LA patients for over thirty years. Our Montebello cardiologists have performed more than 15,000 vascular and cardiac procedures and built the practice on long visits, careful listening, and a doctor who actually picks up the phone.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
We open with a cardiac evaluation in our Beverly Hills office, about twenty-five minutes west of Montebello on the 60 to the 5. The conditions we treat — coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, prior heart attack, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, mitral valve disease and aortic valve disease — show up in this part of the county at high rates, often tangled up with diabetes that has gone uncontrolled for years.
Montebello Cardiac Specialists
Our Montebello cardiologists see patients who live around Whittier Boulevard, Beverly Boulevard, and across into Bell Gardens and East LA. A lot of them came in because a primary care doctor at AltaMed or Beverly Hospital flagged something on the bloodwork, or because a brother already came through our doors and wanted them seen. We treat people who have worked four decades on their feet — auto body, hospitality, warehouse — and the medicine respects that.
Be prepared.
Beverly Hospital Montebello on Beverly Boulevard is the closest 24-hour ER with a cath lab — five minutes from most addresses in the city. Keep that route in your phone. Schools, churches and the city’s community centers along Whittier Boulevard usually have AED cabinets in the lobby; we recommend every family with a heart history buy an AED for the house and walk through the steps with the kids who are old enough to use it.
If you are having chest pain or your heartbeat feels chaotic right now, call 911 and head to Beverly Hospital. Call our office when you are stable.
An initial Montebello visit at our Beverly Hills office runs about an hour. We do the physical exam, take the medical and family history, and ask about every medication including the herbal teas and supplements people sometimes leave off the list. From Montebello, take the 60 west to the 5 north and you reach our Beverly Hills office in about twenty-five minutes outside of rush — book a morning slot and the drive eases up. We pull labs the same visit so you are not making a second trip from the east side. Spanish-speaking conversation is available; ask at the front desk.
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.
Montebello sits in a corner of LA County where cardiovascular disease and diabetes track together more tightly than the county average. Hispanic adults in California carry significantly higher rates of type 2 diabetes than the general population, and uncontrolled diabetes is the engine behind most of the coronary disease we treat. Our job is to spot it early, run the right in-office tests, and put together a treatment plan that fits how you actually live. Most of the diagnostics happen the same morning, so a Montebello patient drives home with answers, not a stack of follow-up referrals.
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 Montebello 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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