Indications and results for hybrid interventions in patients with congenital heart disease.

A hybrid therapy or procedure is a new treatment modality that develops by combining therapies from different subspecialties. In congenital heart disease, a growing number of such procedures have been described in recent decades, as a result of increasing collaboration between surgeons and interventionalists. The ideas behind these therapies include enabling the performance of procedures of different complexity in a less invasive manner, shortening procedural times, avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass, facilitating vascular access and decreasing the number of complications associated with more invasive approaches. Over the years, hybrid therapy has gained a place as a widely accepted therapeutic option for the management of several conditions in high-risk patients with congenital heart disease.