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Best Mammography in San Diego Our Comprehensive Breast Center is led by world-renowned breast cancer specialists dedicated exclusively to prevention, early detection, and treatment. Our experts care only for patients with or at risk for breast cancer, delivering truly personalized, unmatched care while advancing research that improves early detection. With 1 in 8 women developing [...]

Real Patient Stories Fox 5’s Phil Blauer Visits Image One for a Life-Saving CT Heart Scan After our Director of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac CT, Dr. Milind Parikh, appeared on FOX News to discuss the benefits of CT heart scans and how they can help prevent heart attacks, Fox 5’s Phil Blauer decided to come [...]

Real Patient Stories "I Had No Symptoms... And the Scan Showed I Had a Blockage." A routine CT Heart Scan revealed what no symptoms could. Alan considered himself healthy. He stayed active, walked daily, square danced several times a week, and had no warning signs of heart disease. Because of his family history, his physician [...]

Why Early Heart Detection Matters Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego was proud to welcome Julian Lennon, who recently shared publicly that he has been diagnosed with coronary heart disease and pre-diabetes. In his public health update, Julian encouraged others to get checked sooner rather than later, sharing an important reminder that hidden health issues can [...]

Advancing Cardiovascular Care at CVISD We are proud to share that Dr. Mehran Moussavian, CEO of the Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego, was included as an author in this international clinical trial. His involvement reflects CVISD’s ongoing commitment to advancing cardiovascular care through innovation and research. A New Option for Atrial Fibrillation Patients Atrial fibrillation, often [...]

Pain Specialist - San Diego Our Pain Management Clinic specializes in diagnosing and treating chronic and acute pain, including back pain, neck pain, spine conditions, sciatica, arthritis, nerve pain, sports injuries, and post-surgical pain. Led by experienced pain specialists, we provide personalized treatment plans using evidence-based and minimally invasive techniques designed to reduce pain, restore [...]

CVISD Electrophysiologist Performs Sharp Chula Vista’s First Pulsed Field Ablation. What began as a routine trip to the ER for flu-like symptoms turned into a life-changing diagnosis for one local patient — and a groundbreaking moment for heart care in the South Bay. Abhishek Shah, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiologist with the Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego (CVISD), performed the first [...]

Sharp Chula Vista Heart Failure Team Honored with National Recognition The Heart Failure Team at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, led by Dr. Mohamedali, has earned the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Outstanding Heart Failure Team Award—one of the highest honors in heart-failure care across the United States. As a cardiologist at the Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego [...]

Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego is proud to have performed the first Tricuspid Clip (TriClip™ TEER) procedure at Sharp Chula Vista, led by Dr. Alan John, MD, FACC, FSCAI and Dr. Milind Parikh, DO. We are one of the few groups in San Diego offering this innovative, low-risk, non-surgical treatment for patients with severe symptomatic [...]

Best Mammography in San Diego Our Comprehensive Breast Center is led by world-renowned breast cancer specialists dedicated exclusively to prevention, early detection, and treatment. Our experts care only for patients with or at risk for breast cancer, delivering truly personalized, unmatched care while advancing research that improves early detection. With 1 in 8 women developing [...]

Welcome to the new age of cardiac diagnostic imaging. CVISD has collaborated with Image One and CT Heart Scan to bring you a new state-of-the-art CT scanner that can scan your entire heart and look for plaque build up and blockages in your coronary arteries. This allows your cardiologist to do an angiogram noninvasively and [...]

57 year old male with stroke due to a small hole in the heart or Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) successfully closed in 30 minutes with minimally invasive surgery and discharged next morning by Dr. Mehran Moussavian. What is Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)? A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a hole in the heart that didn't [...]