Management of the HIV-Infected Patient

HIV-infection can occur in people of many different groups including both homosexual and heterosexual men and women; injecting drug users; persons with haemophilia and recipients of contaminated blood or organs. The clinician who cares for people with HIV infection must be aware of at least three elements: the realities of the disease, the diagnostic and therapeutic capacity of modern medicine, and the psychological and social dimensions that are manifested and reflected by AIDS.
Management of the HIV- Infected Patient completely updates the first edition of this work, covering the many changes that have occurred in this rapidly changing field since the first volume's publication. This book provides state-of-the-art information on the clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of the various manifestations of HIV infection, presenting all the significant complications of HIV together with management guidelines from primary infection onwards.

Contents:
1. Primary HIV-1 infection 2. Treatment of HIV infection 3. The pathogenesis of HIV infection 4. General approach to the HIV infected patient 5. Antiretroviral therapy: adverse effects and drug interactions 6. Antiretroviral drugs 7. Palliative care in the setting of HIV 8. HIV infected women 9. Paediatric HIV infection 10. Neurologic manifestations of HIV infection 11. Psychiatric disturbances and HIV infection 12. Oral manifestations of HIV infection 13. The use of the laboratory in the diagnosis and management of HIV 14. Rheumatologic manifestations of HIV infection 15. Cardiovascular disease and HIV infection 16. An approach to gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disease in HIV 17. Haematologic manifestations of HIV infection 18. Nutritional/endocrine consequences of HIV infection and treatment 19. Infectious cutaneous complications of HIV disease 20. Herpes simplex and varicella zoster virus infections in HIV-infected individuals 21. CMV and HIV infection 22. Bacterial infection and HIV infection 23. Tuberculosis and HIV infection 24. Management and prevention of disseminated mycobacterium avium complex infections 25. PCP and AIDS 26. Toxoplasma gondii infection and AIDS 27. Cryptoccal infection and AIDS 28. Candidiasis, histoplasmosis, aspergillosis and mycoses and AIDS 29. Cryptosporidium, cyclospora, isospora and microsporidial infections and AIDS 30. Other parasitic infections 31. Neoplasia and HIV infection 32. Advice to the HIV-infected traveller 33. Post exposure prophylaxis for occupational and non-occupational HIV exposure 34. IDUs and HIV infection 35. Management of the HIV infected patient in a developing country 36. Evaluation and management of respiratory complications of HIV infection