General Practitioners

• Primary Care
  Our providers, partner with our patients and their primary care physicians to provide outstanding, comprehensive care utilizing the latest techniques and innovations. In addition to our comprehensive cardiac evaluations, our physicians offer complete cardiology services on site in our Newburyport office.
• Electrocardiogram
  After the 45 minute wait period, the technologist will bring you into the camera room where you will be asked to lie on your back with your arms over your head. The camera will then rotate around your chest and takes images for approximately 15 minutes. After the resting images are complete the technologist will bring you into the stress lab where a technician/technologist will attach electrodes to your chest and wires to those electrodes for the EKG. The EKG is used to record the activity of your heart rhythms during the stress test. A blood pressure cuff will be wrapped around one of your arms so blood pressure can be measured before, during, and after the stress test.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology),American Board of Vascular Medicine (Endovascular Medicine), Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology)

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Our lab is an on-site resource that our providers use to diagnose a variety of cardiovascular disorders – evaluating heart function, valve function, and other structural abnormalities of the heart. Tests are performed by our highly trained medical staff using Ultrasound and Doppler techniques to evaluate the structure of the heart either at rest or in combination with exercise to evaluate the possible presence of myocardial ischemia. These tests include standard transthoracic echocardiography and exercise echocardiography. Our lab uses state-of-the-art digital imaging equipment from Philips to perform these exams.
• X-Rays
• Nuclear Medicine
  Dr. Ghiasuddin recieved his medical degree in his native Pakistan in 1989 then performed his post-graduate medical training in New York City and Boston. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease, Nuclear Medicine, Endovascular Medicine and Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Ghiasuddin is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
• Computed Tomography
  A nuclear stress test is a three step process in which 1) images of a patient’s heart are taken at rest, 2) the patient’s heart is stressed to increase the activity level in the heart, and 3) more images of the heart are taken post-stress. In order to achieve the best possible images of the heart, a radiopharmaceutical called Cardiolite is injected into a patient via an IV. Cardiolite is a nuclear radioactive isotope, also called Technetium Sestamibi. The amount of radiation that a patient will be exposed to is comparable to that of a CT scan or X-Ray. The Cardiolite tracer is circulated in the blood through the coronary arteries and into the heart muscle. This tracer allows images of heart activity to be captured using a gamma camera.