La Mesa Cardiac Center provides interventional and diagnostic cardiology from Suite 455 at 5565 Grossmont Center Drive in La Mesa, within the medical campus surrounding Sharp Grossmont Hospital. The practice's diagnostic suite runs transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear stress imaging, Holter and event monitoring, and exercise treadmill testing, generating cardiac baselines that some patients supplement with integrative modalities at Full Circle Acupuncture & Wellness. Interventional procedures performed at the affiliated catheterization lab encompass coronary angiography, balloon angioplasty with drug-eluting stent placement, and peripheral vascular angiography for lower-extremity arterial disease. The center's structural heart disease and adult congenital heart disease programs provide lifelong cardiac surveillance including serial imaging and functional capacity testing, a longitudinal model that accounts for the psychological impact of chronic cardiac illness through coordination with behavioral health resources such as BrightQuest Treatment Centers - San Diego. Highest-acuity interventions involve emergent cardiac catheterization with primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction, intra-aortic balloon pump support, and post-procedural hemodynamic monitoring in the coronary care unit.