The Medical Management of AIDS
Saunders (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published in October 1996
Book
Hardback
532 pages
978-0-7216-6908-3 (ISBN)
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Description
This text offers health care providers and clinicians information needed to effectively care for HIV infected individuals. Included is coverage of new antiretroviral drugs and tests for quantitating viral load, which have the potential to slow the progression of the HIV virus and prolong survival.
This text offers health care providers and clinicians information needed to effectively care for HIV infected individuals. Included is coverage of new antiretroviral drugs and tests for quantitating viral load, which have the potential to slow the progression of the HIV virus and prolong survival.
This text offers health care providers and clinicians information needed to effectively care for HIV infected individuals. Included is coverage of new antiretroviral drugs and tests for quantitating viral load, which have the potential to slow the progression of the HIV virus and prolong survival.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
231 ills (16 in full color)
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 184 mm
Weight
1280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7216-6908-3 (9780721669083)
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Merle A. Sande | Paul Volberding
The Medical Management of AIDS
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08/1999
6th Edition
Saunders
€82.93
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Content
Part 1 The virus - its transmission and infection: current trends in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS; molecular insights into HIV-1 infection; natural history and immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 disease; quantitation of HIV viral load - a tool for clinical practice?; limiting the risks of health care workers. Part 2 Management of HIV infections and their complications: primary HIV infection; initiating routine care for the HIV-infected adult; antiretroviral therapy; drug interactions and toxicities in patients with AIDS; alternative therapies for HIV; dermatologic care in the AIDS patient; oral complications of HIV infection; gastrointestinal tract manifestations of AIDS; management of neurologic complications of HIV-1 infection and AIDS; HIV disease - psychosocial issues and psychiatric complications; haematologic complications of HIV infection; cardiovascular complications of HIV infection; endocrinologic manifestations of HIV infection; renal complications of HIV infection. Part 3 Specific infections and malignant conditions: "pneumocystis carinii" pneumonia; disseminated "mycobacterium avium" complex and other bacterial infections; tuberculosis in persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection; cryptococcosis and other fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidiomycosis); AIDS-associated toxoplasmosis; bacillary angiomatosis and other unusual infections in HIV-infected individuals; management of herpesvirus infections (CMV,HSV, VZV); management of syphilis in HIV-infected persons; malignancies associated with AIDS. Part 4 Special aspects of AIDS: the chest film in AIDS; management of pregnant women with HIV infection; paediatric AIDS - perinatal transmission and early diagnosis; gender-specific issues in HIV disease; HIV nursing care.