Are you searching for a cardiologist near San Pedro?
Our Beverly Hills office is around 35 minutes north of San Pedro on the I-110. Same-week slots open for chest pain workups, follow-ups after a Providence Little Company of Mary San Pedro discharge, and pacemaker reviews. Most new patient visits book within two weeks.
Chest tightness on the dock walk after a long shift on the wharf. Shortness of breath climbing the hill from Cabrillo Beach to the cliffs at Point Fermin. A heart rate that feels off when you sit down at Ports O’ Call after a day on the cranes. The San Pedro patient mix runs working-class, multi-generational, and tied to the Port of LA. The cardiac questions that come with that work are part of why we built same-week capacity. Many patients come in for pacemaker or defibrillator follow-up too.
San Pedro’s Croatian, Italian, and Mexican-American families take care of their own. When a heart diagnosis lands, it is rarely just the patient who shows up at the appointment – spouses, adult kids, sometimes a son or daughter-in-law who works in healthcare. The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions respects that. Thirty-plus years of practice, more than 15,000 procedures, and an understanding that an appointment is not over until the family knows what to expect for the next 30 days.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
Most San Pedro patients arrive through one of a few channels: a primary care doctor at Providence Little Company of Mary San Pedro caught an irregular rhythm, the ER cleared an acute MI and recommended a cardiology follow-up, or a longshoreman with a strong family history of early heart attacks finally booked the workup his wife has been pushing for. We run the cardiac evaluation in-office and treat coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, post-heart attack care, arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, mitral valve, and aortic valve disease. From the harbor area, the I-110 north runs about 35 minutes outside peak traffic.
San Pedro Cardiac Specialists
Our San Pedro cardiology patients include longshore workers, port engineers, retired Navy from the Long Beach side, and multigenerational families who have been in the Harbor Area since the canneries. Same care plan whether you walk in from Western Avenue or fly in from out of state.
Be prepared.
Every yard at the Port of LA, every union hall, every gym on Pacific Avenue should have an AED mounted somewhere visible. Cardiac arrest does not wait for an ambulance to get down the 110.
If you are having chest pain right now or a chaotic, racing heartbeat with breathlessness, call 911. Providence Little Company of Mary San Pedro is the closest ER. Call us once you are stable for the cardiology follow-up.
The first appointment for a San Pedro patient runs about 60 minutes at our Beverly Hills office. Physical exam first – listening carefully to the heart and lungs and checking peripheral pulses and edema, both of which matter more in patients with long port-work histories. Then a complete medical history: cardiac symptoms, occupational exposures (diesel particulate, asbestos for older harbor workers), family heart disease, current medications, and other chronic conditions. EKG and echo on visit one. The drive up the 110 from San Pedro is about 35 minutes off-peak.
Protect your heart.
Trust Your Heart to Our Expert Care
One American dies of cardiovascular disease every 37 seconds. 2,353 deaths a day. The 90731-90732 area carries an aging working-class population with elevated rates of smoking-related disease, occupational lung exposures from port work, and a strong family-history component in the Croatian and Italian communities here. Cardiology screening earlier moves the curve.
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 Pedro 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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