Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in High-risk Infants - an Update on Palivizumab Prophylaxis.

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Morbidity due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV ) disease is still high in infants and children worldwide during the first two to five years of life . Certain categories of high -risk infants with increased morbidity and mortality attributed to RSV disease have been identified and are included in national recommendations for prophylaxis with the monoclonal RSV antibody palivizumab . Most guidelines recommend palivizumab for preterm infants born less than or equal to 32 weeks gestational age with or without bronchopulmonary dysplasia , those born between 33 and 35 weeks gestational age with additional risk factors , and infants and children with hemodynamically significant congenital heart disease . Over the last years several rare diseases have been identified demonstrating high morbidity associated with RSV disease , thus , extension of guidelines for the prophylaxis with palivizumab for these patients with rare diseases including children with malignancy , congenital and acquired immune deficiency , Down syndrome , neuromuscular impairment , cystic fibrosis , congenital diaphragmatic hernia and other severe respiratory disease is increasingly discussed . Efficacy of palivizumab prophylaxis is documented by meta -analysis , and different economic analyses demonstrate cost-effectiveness of palivizumab for the most common indications during the first RSV season .

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22q11.2 deletion syndrome

achondroplasia

acute rheumatic fever

adrenal incidentaloma

child syndrome

classical phenylketonuria

cohen syndrome

congenital diaphragmatic hernia

dentinogenesis imperfecta

esophageal adenocarcinoma

fabry disease

familial mediterranean fever

heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

hirschsprung disease

holt-oram syndrome

homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria

kabuki syndrome

monosomy 21

omenn syndrome

phenylketonuria

sneddon syndrome

systemic capillary leak syndrome

wiskott-aldrich syndrome

wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

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