Evaluating How Beliefs Among Pediatric Cardiology Providers May Affect Fetal Cardiac Counseling-A National Perspective.

Background: Prenatal counseling following a fetal diagnosis of critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) is challenging and requires delivery of detailed and complete information to ensure appropriate decision making and pregnancy support.

Methods: An anonymous 50-item survey was distributed to providers who performed fetal cardiac counseling. The primary purpose was to evaluate on a national scale physician beliefs and attitudes toward available choices after a fetal diagnosis of CCHD and their association with reported counseling practices.

710 kW stable average power in a 45,000 finesse two-mirror optical cavity.

Very high-average optical enhancement cavities (OECs) are being used both in fundamental and applied research. The most demanding applications require stable megawatt level average power of infrared picosecond pulses with repetition rates of several tens of MHz. Toward reaching this goal, we report on the achievement of 710 kW of stable average power in a two-mirror hemispherical optical enhancement cavity.

Female patients with acute aortic dissection type A (AADA): A gender-selective evaluation of the intensity of the surgical treatment.

Objective: Acute aortic dissection type A (AADA) is a condition that affects both genders and requires urgent surgical intervention as non-operative treatment is often associated with a poor prognosis. Studies have proven that less aggressive surgical treatments influence the outcome for female patients in the fields of several diseases. The purpose of this study was to report and analyze our results in the selective cohort of female patients with AADA to detect differences in the treatment of this group of patients.

Non-Nutritive Suck and Parent Report of Feeding Skills in Infants Born With Cleft Lip and/or Palate.

Objective: To compare non-nutritive sucking (NNS) and caregiver-reported feeding skills in infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) to a control group of typically developing infants without CL/P. To examine differences in NNS patterns and feeding behavior between cleft phenotypes.

Design: Prospective, cross-sectional study comparing infants born with CL/P to an age-matched control group with no congenital anomalies.

Bacterial extracellular vesicles as intranasal postbiotics: Detailed characterization and interaction with airway cells.

Escherichia coli A0 34/86 (EcO83) is a probiotic strain used in newborns to prevent nosocomial infections and diarrhoea. This bacterium stimulates both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine production and its intranasal administration reduces allergic airway inflammation in mice. Despite its benefits, there are concerns about the use of live probiotic bacteria due to potential systemic infections and gene transfer.