HIV Neurology

This text provides a clinical framework for the diagnosis and management of more than seventy potential neurological complications that may occur in the HIV infected patient. The clinical framework is designed to be "user friendly" so that even the most inexperienced clinician should be able
to arrive at the correct diagnosis. The neurological complications of HIV disease have considerably changed in the last decade. Not only have more opportunistic conditions been described but other complications arising from antiretroviral drugs such as lipodystrophy and accelerated atherosclerosis
have become problematic. Moreover, the pattern of complications has altered. Diseases such as cerebral toxoplasmosis, AIDS dementia complex and primary central nervous system lymphoma are now becoming uncommon to rare while peripheral neuropathy is becoming increasingly common. In line with these
changes, there have been very significant advances in the therapy of HIV disease in general and in neurological complications in particular. Patients with AIDS dementia complex now have a variety of antiretroviral and adjuvant drugs available to them in contrast to the situation only five years ago
where therapy was confined to two antiretroviral drugs at best.

Summary

This text provides a clinical framework for the diagnosis and management of more than 70 potential neurological complications that may occur in the HIV infected patient. The framework is designed to be "user friendly" so inexperienced clinicians can arrive at the correct diagnosis.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce James (Associate Professor of Medicine at UNiversity of New South Wales; and Consultant Neurologist and Physician Brew, Bruce James Brew, Brew Bruce James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 10.05.2001
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine
• EAN: 9780195133639
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513363-9
• Illustrations: 4pp colour plates, numerous halftones and line figures
• Dimensions (packing): 24.9 x 17.3 x 1.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 774 g
• Series: Contemporary Neurology Series > 61; Contemporary Neurology (Hardco > 61; Contemporary Neurology Series > 61; Contemporary Neurology (Hardco > 61; Contemporary Neurology > 61
• Subjects: MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases