Abstract
Evaluation of aortic proximal anastomoses in patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass surgery poses a special challenge to the interventional cardiologist during follow-up angiography procedures. We present a simple, safe, and fast technique for proximal anastomoses marking using hemostatic clips. Successful visualization of the graft marker was achieved using medium-sized hemoclips during fluoroscopy. The use of hemoclips for this procedure proved to be straightforward and required no additional surgical training.
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