Cardiology care for San Dimas and the east San Gabriel Valley
Maybe your internist on Bonita Avenue mentioned a borderline lipid panel. Maybe you noticed shortness of breath walking the trails around Frank G. Bonelli Park. Maybe your AFib was caught on a routine check at Foothill Presbyterian. Whatever brought you to look up a cardiologist near San Dimas — our Beverly Hills office is about 40 minutes west on the 10, the nearest CACVI location.
San Dimas patients tend to come in steady and prepared: working adults in their 50s and 60s, often referred by a primary care doctor who already pulled the labs and wants a second set of eyes on the heart. Dr. Mehran J. Khorsandi and Dr. Moinakhtar Lala have spent more than thirty years between them on cardiac and vascular cases, with 15,000-plus procedures behind them. You see the doctor for the whole visit, not a rotating cast of trainees, and the imaging is read in the room with you watching the screen.
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Most of the San Dimas residents we see were sent over for one of three reasons: a stress test their internist couldn’t fully interpret, atrial fibrillation flagged on an Apple Watch and confirmed at urgent care, or leg cramping that comes on after a few blocks of walking. Our team can perform a cardiac evaluation — exam, EKG, echocardiogram, vascular ultrasound — in a single visit at our Beverly Hills office, about 40 minutes from San Dimas via the 10 west. We schedule San Dimas patients early in the day so the commute happens before traffic.
San Dimas Cardiac Specialists
Both physicians are board-certified in cardiology and have published work that gets cited in the field. For our San Dimas patients, the practical difference shows up in the format: one cardiologist in the room, time to actually ask questions, and a written plan we send back to your Foothill Presbyterian or Citrus Valley primary care office before the day is out.
Be prepared.
Foothill Presbyterian on Buena Vista is the closest hospital for most San Dimas residents and handles the bulk of local cardiac emergencies. Pomona Valley Hospital sits just to the east. Both can stabilize chest pain, but neither has the outpatient cardiology follow-up bandwidth we see across town. If you were discharged from a San Dimas–area ER recently with a “see a cardiologist” note, we hold slots for those handoffs. Households should also know how to operate an AED — survival from sudden cardiac arrest drops about 10% per minute before defibrillation, and most San Dimas neighborhoods are 6 to 8 minutes from the nearest paramedic unit.
The first appointment for a San Dimas patient typically runs 60 to 90 minutes. We start with your history — family events, current medications, what symptoms show up at what activity level — then do a physical exam, EKG, and an echocardiogram if the visit calls for one. If you’ve had recent imaging at Foothill Presbyterian or Pomona Valley, bring the CD; we’d rather work from your existing scans than re-order them. The Beverly Hills office sits at 8741 Alden Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90048; the cleanest route from San Dimas is the 10 west to La Brea, about 40 minutes outside the morning rush.
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San Dimas tracks close to the Los Angeles County average on the big cardiovascular risk factors — hypertension prevalence sits in the high 20s percent for adults, and cholesterol screening rates lag where we’d like them to be. The takeaway for our San Dimas patients is the same one we give everyone: high blood pressure and elevated LDL are highly modifiable when caught early, and a yearly cardiology check after age 55 catches most of the problems that would otherwise show up in an emergency room.
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 San Dimas 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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