One-year observational study of palivizumab prophylaxis on infants at risk for respiratory syncytial virus infection in Latin America.

Objective: This study aims to describe real world palivizumab use and effectiveness in high-risk Latin American infants and young children.

Method: Prospective, multicenter observational study with infants at risk for severe RSV infection who received palivizumab according to routine clinical practice. Subjects were followed for one year with monthly visits after the first dose of palivizumab.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: assessment with cardiac MRI.

Objective: The objective of this article is to show how MRI findings can be used to differentiate Takotsubo cardiomyopathy from acute coronary syndrome.

Conclusion: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a disorder that mimics acute coronary syndrome. MRI can show not only edema in the ventricular wall, which is diffuse and without arterial territory distribution, but also motion abnormalities with typical akinesis in the apical and mid planes.