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Textbook of AIDS medicine

edited by Samuel Broder, Thomas C. Merigan, Jr., Dani Bolognesi

Williams & Wilkins, c1994

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Textbook of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome medicine

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book combines basic science and bench research with clinical applications. All aspects of work in the field of AIDS are examined, including molecular biology, clinical studies, and patient care. It also represents a marriage of the three fields of medicine prominent in this specialty - immunology, oncology and infectious disease. Both students and experienced practitioners will find this text to be a useful source of practical knowledge. The opening chapters cover basic research, molecular biology, animal models, immunobiology and the general clinical spectrum of AIDS and its related disorders, fundamentals of public health, biostatistics, and clinical study design. Subsequent chapters discuss AIDS in the context of women and children, specific geographic areas, and intravenous drug use.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction: history. Part 2 Basic science: the virus and its target cells
  • viral genes and their products
  • natural history of HIV-1 disease
  • immunopathogenesis
  • an immunologist's view of HIV infection. Part 3 Epidemiology: epidemiology of HIV infection in industrialized countries
  • epidemiology of AIDS in developing countries
  • public health issues. Part 4 Clinical: clinical spectrum of AIDS
  • special considerations in women
  • special considerations in children
  • HIV and injecting drug users
  • pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
  • toxoplasmosis in the setting of AIDS
  • typical mycobacteria
  • syphillis
  • bacillary angiomatosis
  • tropical diseases in the HIV-infected traveller
  • cryptosporidium and cryptosporidiosis
  • fungi
  • cytomegalovirus infection in patients with HIV infection
  • herpes simplex and varicella zoster virus infections in HIV-infected individuals
  • progressive multifocal leukoence-phalopathy
  • Kaposi's sarcoma and cloacogenic carcinoma associated with AIDS
  • overview of AIDS-related lymphomas - a paradigm of AIDS malignancies
  • AIDS-associated malignant lymphomas
  • AIDS-related lymphomas - clinical aspects
  • ocular sequelae neurologic complications of HIV infection and AIDS
  • cutaneous signs of HIV infection
  • oral manifestations
  • gastro-intestinal manifestations of HIV disease
  • the pancreas in AIDS
  • the peritoneum and mesentery in AIDS
  • liver disease and AIDS
  • renal disease and AIDS
  • cardiac involvement in the patient with AIDS
  • hematologic consequences of HIV infection
  • endocrine abnormalities associated with immunodeficiency virus infection and AIDS
  • the wasting syndrome in AIDS
  • assays for the diagnosis of HIV infections. Part 5 Control and prevention: preventive vaccines
  • therapeutic HIV vaccines
  • immune-based therapies for HIV-1 infection
  • drug discovery
  • biostatistics and clinical study design
  • biochemical pharmacology of nucleoside analogues active against HIV
  • strategies for antiretroviral therapy in adult HIV disease
  • viral resistance to antiretroviral therapy
  • unproven and unconventional therapies
  • psychotherapy and counselling for HIV-positive individuals
  • hospice care and pain management
  • AIDS in health care workers
  • managing occupational exposures to HIV
  • AIDS and ethics
  • diseases associated with other retroviruses
  • human immunodeficience virus type-2
  • HTLV-1 and HTLV-2.

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