HIV Infection

This practical guide is designed to give primary care physicians and other health care professionals the essential information they need to provide high-quality care to adults infected with HIV. Clincally oriented material focuses on specific diagnostic and treatment issues, which are accessible from an organ system or disease perspective. The book's expert authors first present an overview of HIV infection and then address its clinical manifestations, associated opportunistic diseases and a variety of special topics, including risk reduction for health care workers. This edition has been revised to include new material on sites and modalities of care, the legal and social aspects of end-stage disease, and adolescent issues. New chapters cover pathophysiology and natural history, endocrinologic manifestations, gastrointestinal parasites, understanding clinical trials, and management of HIV disease.
 
This practical guide is designed to give primary care physicians and other health care professionals the essential information they need to provide high-quality care to adults infected with HIV. Clincally oriented material focuses on specific diagnostic and treatment issues, which are accessible from an organ system or disease perspective. The book's expert authors first present an overview of HIV infection and then address its clinical manifestations, associated opportunistic diseases and a variety of special topics, including risk reduction for health care workers. This edition has been revised to include new material on sites and modalities of care, the legal and social aspects of end-stage disease, and adolescent issues. New chapters cover pathophysiology and natural history, endocrinologic manifestations, gastrointestinal parasites, understanding clinical trials, and management of HIV disease.