Cardiology care for Moorpark and east Ventura County
If your internist near Los Angeles Avenue flagged a borderline EKG, if your blood pressure has been creeping up at home checks, or if a recent ER visit at Simi Valley Hospital ended with “follow up with cardiology” — our Tarzana office is the closest CACVI location, about 30 minutes east on the 23 and the 101.
Moorpark is largely suburban, with a strong Moorpark College–adjacent population, a working-age commuter base that runs the 23 every weekday, and a growing 55-plus segment in the High Street area. The patients we see from Moorpark tend to arrive with a referral and a clear question their primary care doctor already put on the table. Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi and Dr. Moinakhtar Lala have over thirty years of combined cardiology and vascular practice and 15,000-plus procedures between them. The doctor stays in the room for the whole visit, the imaging is read in front of you, and your visit summary goes back to your Moorpark primary care office that same day.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
Most Moorpark patients arrive for one of three reasons: a stress test their internist wants a second look at, atrial fibrillation caught on a wearable or at a wellness check, or chest tightness that’s showing up during the morning commute on the 23. Our team can perform a cardiac evaluation — physical exam, EKG, echocardiogram, vascular ultrasound — in a single visit at our Tarzana office, about 30 minutes from Moorpark via the 23 south to the 101 east. We schedule Moorpark patients mid-morning so the drive misses the worst of the 101 stretch through Calabasas.
Moorpark Cardiac Specialists
Both cardiologists are board-certified, fellowship-trained, and have published peer-reviewed research in the field. For our Moorpark patients the practical difference shows up in the visit itself — one physician in the room, time to walk through what each finding means, and a written summary sent back to your Simi Valley or Moorpark internist before you’ve hit the 23 north on the way home.
Be prepared.
Simi Valley Hospital is the closest full-service ER for most Moorpark residents, with Los Robles in Thousand Oaks as the next closest. Both can stabilize acute chest pain. Neither offers the outpatient cardiology follow-up bandwidth that prevents the next ER visit. If you were discharged from either in the past couple of weeks with a “see cardiology soon” instruction, that’s the appointment type we hold open slots for. Moorpark households should also know how to use an AED — sudden cardiac arrest survival drops about 10% per minute without defibrillation, and the outer Moorpark neighborhoods can mean longer paramedic response times than the urban average.
The first visit for a Moorpark patient runs 60 to 90 minutes. We start with your history — family events, current medications, what symptoms show up at what activity — then do the physical exam, EKG, and an echocardiogram if warranted. If you have recent imaging at Simi Valley Hospital or Los Robles, bring the disc or sign a release ahead so we work from what you have. The Tarzana office is at 18226 Ventura Blvd, Suite 102, Tarzana, CA 91356; from Moorpark, the 23 south to the 101 east, exit Reseda, is the cleanest route — about 30 minutes outside peak hours.
Protect your heart.
Trust Your Heart to Our Expert Care
Moorpark’s adult cardiovascular risk profile tracks close to the Ventura County average on hypertension and cholesterol, but the long commute culture pulls sedentary risk up — many of our Moorpark patients spend 90+ minutes a day in the car. Sedentary time, elevated blood pressure, and slowly rising LDL all respond well to early outpatient management. Most Moorpark patients we evaluate end up with a medication tune-up and a lifestyle plan rather than a procedure, provided the workup happens before symptoms become disabling.
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 Moorpark 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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