Hybrid Interventions in Congenital Heart Disease

Abstract

Hybrid interventions in congenital heart disease (CHD) embody the inherent collaboration between congenital interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery. Hybrid approaches to complex and common lesions provide the opportunity to circumvent the limitations of patient size, vascular access, severity of illness, and anatomy that would otherwise be prohibitive to surgical and percutaneous techniques alone. This review describes several important hybrid approaches to interventions in CHD.

Keywords: Aortic stent implantation; Atrial septal defect creation; Congenital heart disease; Congenital interventional cardiology; Hybrid interventions; Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Transcatheter valve implantation; Ventricular septal defect closure.