Are you searching for a cardiologist close to Torrance?
Our Beverly Hills office is about 30 minutes north of Torrance on the I-405. Same-week appointments hold for new chest pain workups, post-discharge follow-ups from Torrance Memorial, and pacemaker/AFib reviews. Routine new patient visits open within two weeks.
Chest pressure during a morning walk along the Esplanade. Palpitations after a long meeting at the old Toyota campus or one of the aerospace primes. Shortness of breath on the stairs at Del Amo. The Torrance patient mix runs heavily working-age and Asian-American, and our office sees the cardiac questions that profile produces – early hypertension, a strong family history of heart disease, and pacemaker or defibrillator care for older parents whose adult kids are coordinating the visits.
A cardiac diagnosis in a multigenerational South Bay household pulls everyone in – the patient, the spouse, the adult son or daughter who handles the medical decisions, sometimes the grandparent who lives down the hall. The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions works at that pace. Thirty-plus years of practice. More than 15,000 cardiac and vascular procedures. We will not move on from a visit until the family understands the diagnosis and the next three steps.
Find out the cause of your heart condition.
Torrance referrals reach us through a few familiar paths: Torrance Memorial Medical Center primary care, the cardiology consult queue at Providence Little Company of Mary, or a Kaiser South Bay PCP who flagged something on a baseline EKG. 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 Torrance, the I-405 north runs about 30 minutes outside rush hour.
Torrance Cardiac Specialists
Our Torrance cardiologists see longtime South Bay residents alongside patients flying in from Tokyo, Seoul, and across the Pacific Rim. The Japanese-American and Korean-American communities in Torrance are part of why our practice has built strong relationships with regional patients – the standard of care travels well, and so do the follow-up calls.
Be prepared.
Every workplace in the Torrance industrial corridor and every fitness facility on the Esplanade should have an AED on the wall. They cost less than the South Bay commute over a couple of months and they save lives in the minutes before paramedics arrive.
If you have chest pain right now or your heart feels like it is fluttering chaotically and you cannot catch your breath, call 911. Torrance Memorial Medical Center is the closest cardiac ER. Once you are stable, call us for the follow-up.
A first visit for a Torrance patient at our Beverly Hills office runs about an hour. Physical exam first. Then a detailed medical history – cardiac symptoms, family history (particularly important given the South Bay Asian-American patient mix where early hypertension and cardiomyopathy run in families), medications, and other chronic conditions. We typically order an EKG and echo on the first visit and may add a lipid panel, metabolic screen, or troponin depending on what the exam showed. The drive north on the 405 takes around 30 minutes.
Protect your heart.
Trust Your Heart to Our Expert Care
Cardiovascular disease kills someone in the U.S. every 37 seconds. 2,353 deaths a day. The Torrance-Lomita-Carson corridor has a working-age population with a complicated risk picture – cleaner air than the Eastside, but a high prevalence of hypertension in Asian-American patients and a longstanding aerospace and manufacturing workforce that has carried decades of sedentary shift work.
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 Torrance 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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