Cardiologist Care for Rowland Heights and the East SGV
Rowland Heights spreads through the hills off Colima Road and the commercial blocks along Nogales and Fullerton Road, and a lot of our patients here are first or second generation — Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean families who built businesses on Pacific Plaza or in the shopping centers along Gale. If you have a pacemaker or defibrillator, a recent cardiac event, or symptoms that started showing up in your fifties, get a careful read.
Heart problems weigh on the whole household — the spouse who has been watching every meal, the adult children who already moved out. The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions has spent over thirty years and more than 15,000 procedures helping Rowland Heights and east-SGV patients work through coronary, valve and rhythm questions calmly. Our Rowland Heights cardiologists sit in Beverly Hills, about forty minutes west on the 60 — far enough to be deliberate, close enough to make sense.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
The first visit usually starts 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. East SGV patients often come to us for a second opinion before procedures get scheduled at Pomona Valley or City of Hope-adjacent practices.
Rowland Heights Cardiac Specialists
Our Rowland Heights cardiologists see patients from across the east SGV — Hacienda Heights, Walnut, Diamond Bar, the unincorporated stretches around Colima and Fullerton Road. A lot of them came in because a family doctor flagged an EKG, or because a sibling already came through our office. We treat patients who have run small businesses for thirty years, raised kids in this corner of the county, and want a practice that takes the full hour for the questions that matter.
Be prepared.
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center on East Artesia is the closest 24-hour ER with a cath lab for most of Rowland Heights — about fifteen minutes east on the 60. Keep that route in your phone. AED cabinets are common in the Pacific Plaza area, the recreation centers, and the larger schools, but we recommend any household with a known cardiac history buy an AED for the home and run through the steps with the adults in the house.
Chest pain right now is a 911 call to Pomona Valley, not a drive west to us. Call our office after the ER stabilizes you.
The initial Rowland Heights visit at our Beverly Hills office runs about an hour. We do the physical, take a careful medical and family history, and ask about every medication including supplements and traditional preparations. From Rowland Heights, take the 60 west to the 10 — about forty minutes outside the worst commute hours. Book a mid-morning appointment and you are home for an afternoon. Lab draws happen the same visit; bring imaging discs and old ECGs if you have them. Mandarin and Cantonese conversation can be arranged in advance.
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.
Rowland Heights sits in a part of California where the cardiac risk picture does not match the national average. Asian-American adults — particularly Chinese-American, Taiwanese-American and Korean-American patients — develop type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome at lower BMI thresholds than the standard guidelines assume, and lipid patterns can drive earlier coronary disease than expected. Our job at CACVI is to read your numbers in that context, run the right in-office workup, and walk you through a plan that fits how your family actually eats, works and lives. Most diagnostics happen the morning of the visit so you leave with answers.
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 Rowland Heights 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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