Thickened feeds for infants with critical CHD: a survey of current practices.

Introduction: Dysphagia is common in infants born with critical CHD. Thickened liquids are often used to treat dysphagia, but associated risks limit widespread use among feeding specialists. This survey aims to assess dysphagia treatment patterns and thickened liquid use across paediatric cardiac surgical centres.

Gem-Diboronic Acids: A Motif For Anion Recognition In Competitive Media.

Gem-diboronic acid derivatives have previously been demonstrated to facilitate substrate binding within a metal's secondary coordination sphere but their use as an anion recognition motif has not been explored. Here, we introduce the gem-diboronic acid motif as a highly effective group for recognition of oxoanions in aqueous solution. Anion receptors based on this motif demonstrate higher binding affinities than other common neutral motifs such as amides and (thio)ureas, and display a unique selectivity profile.

Interpersonal relationships after prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease: Social stressors and supports.

Objective: To identify social stressors and supports for expectant parents after prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) and inform interventions to reduce distress.

Method: Parents of children diagnosed prenatally with CHD (N = 37) were purposively sampled across eight health systems. Qualitative data were collected using crowdsourcing methods and coded/analyzed using thematic analysis.

Time to presumptive conceptus attachment and subsequent pregnancy loss in pasture-based lactating dairy cows following artificial insemination with conventional or X-sorted semen or embryo transfer.

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the timing of presumptive conceptus attachment (pCA) and its relationship with subsequent pregnancy loss in lactating dairy cows following timed artificial insemination with conventional (TAI-C) or X-sorted (TAI-S) semen or timed embryo transfer (TET) with frozen-thawed in vitro-produced (IVP) embryos. Lactating cows (n = 417, predominantly Holstein-Friesian) located in 3 herds were blocked based on parity, calving date and economic breeding index and randomly assigned to receive TAI-C (n = 136), TAI-S (n = 136) or TET with a single, grade 1 frozen-thawed IVP blastocyst (n = 145). Cows were synchronized with a 10-d Progesterone-Ovsynch protocol, and were either inseminated (TAI-C, TAI-S) 16 h after the second GnRH or received TET on d 7 after presumptive estrus.