Management of the HIV-infected Patient

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Suzanne Crowe, Jennifer Hoy, John Mills
CUP Archive, 1996 M04 26 - 437 pages
This compact but comprehensive guide brings together many of the world's leading authorities in the practical management of HIV infection. It represents an international approach, providing detailed and up-to-date information on the clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of the various manifestations of HIV infection. Much attention is paid to drug treatment, and the major clinical trials are reviewed and evaluated. All the significant complications of HIV are presented, with management guidelines, and chapters are also devoted to the psychiatric aspects of HIV and AIDS, the HIV-infected traveller and issues involving health-care providers. Drawing on the best expertise available in the United States, Australia and Europe, this book is an essential clinical reference for physicians.

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Contents

List of Contributors xi Chapter 11 Oral manifestations
142
Primary HIV1 infection 1
152
Natural history and laboratory Brian R Kaye
166
Clinical relevance of HIV1 Melvin D Cheitlin
174
General approach to
184
Antiretroviral drugs 333 53
194
D Weller Chapter 17 Cutaneous complications
206
The HIVinfected woman 95 Sharon Safrin
239
Neurologic manifestations of and HIV infection 238
259
Peter T Frame
298
Toxoplasma gondii infection traveler 399
318
Candidiasis histoplasmosis Suzanne Crowe Jennifer Hoy
340
Joe Wheat Index
425
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