pandas MultiIndex square brackets, keep level names

What is the simplest syntax to index into a pandas.MultiIndex object and keep the level names? The square bracket operator [] produces tuples with level names dropped. I am looking for the cleanest way to write the last line in the code below (ideally something like index.iloc[0]).

import pandas as pd

index = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([[2013, 2014], [1, 2]],
                                   names=['year', 'visit'])
print(index)
print(index[0])  # tuples with level names dropped
print(pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples([index[0]],names=index.names))   # force reconstruct with level names

Produces output:

MultiIndex([(2013, 1),
            (2013, 2),
            (2014, 1),
            (2014, 2)],
           names=['year', 'visit'])
(2013, 1)
MultiIndex([(2013, 1)],
           names=['year', 'visit'])