"In our center, the hybrid procedure is reserved for higher-risk, more complex, and unstable patients in whom a traditional Norwood procedure would carry an unacceptably high risk," explained lead ...

While most have the standard three-stage Norwood procedure, a hybrid strategy has been introduced to offset some disadvantages associated with the Norwood surgeries.

An emerging alternative to Norwood is a hybrid approach. In hybrid procedures, interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons work side-by-side to treat patients without using a heart bypass ...

Born with a heart defect, the baby underwent the first of three heart surgeries, called a hybrid Norwood procedure, at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media.

The hybrid procedure is an initial palliative surgery that can be used as an alternative to the classical Norwood procedure, a highly complex surgery that requires a long support period with a ...

UAB Department of Surgery Associate Professor and A.D. Pacifico, M.D., Endowed Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery Robert Dabal, M.D., has been recognized for his role in performing a high number of ...

While the most common corrective approach is the three-stage Norwood procedure, an alternative strategy, hybrid palliation, allows deferral of the more complex reconstructions to when the child is ...