title: Hybrid cardiovascular procedures in the treatment of selected congenital heart disease in children: a single-centre experience.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Paediatric hybrid cardiovascular procedures are becoming increasingly popular due to the wide spectrum of cardiovascular abnormalities and a large population of patients who could benefit from hybrid therapy. Contemporary hybrid procedures are introduced in the settings where routine cardiac surgery or cardiac interventions would not allow satisfactory results. Combining cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology techniques appears more beneficial and less invasive for the patient.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To present results of hybrid procedures performed in the treatment of selected congenital heart disease in our centre in 2008-2013.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively analysed consecutive 80 patients referred for hybrid procedures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, 73 patients survived, with 4 early and 3 late deaths.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hybrid procedures in children with congenital heart disease combine the experience of cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology. Hybrid treatment is an alternative option for selected borderline patients. Initial results of hybrid treatment encourage further development of these methods and strategies to provide optimal benefits for the patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Pomeranian Centre of Traumatology, Gdansk, Poland. ireneusz_haponiuk@poczta.onet.pl.
authors.forename: Ireneusz
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Haponiuk
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chojnicki
authors.forename: Radosław
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jaworski
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steffens
authors.forename: Aneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szofer-Sendrowska
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Juściński
authors.forename: Ewelina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kwaśniak
authors.forename: Wiktor
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Szymanowicz
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gierat-Haponiuk
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Leszczyńska
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D002309:Cardiology / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D011044:Poland; D012189:Retrospective Studies