Johns Hopkins HIV guide : management of HIV infection and its complications

Gallant, Joel E. (Added Author). Johns Hopkins University. (Added Author).

Summary: Developed from award-winning content included in the online edition of this POC-IT Guide, the Johns Hopkins HIV Guide is a valuable, up-to-the-minute resource for both specialists and general practitioners. Edited by Johns Hopkins' world-renowned HIV clinician and researcher, Dr. Joel E. Gallant, and HIV pharmacologist, Paul A. Pham, this guide provides hundreds of modules of information written for quick use by clinicians at the point of care. The guide includes sections on diagnosis and evaluation, treatment options, resistance and complications, prophylaxis, and antiretroviral drug summaries. The information within this guide is evidence-based and includes annotations by clinical leaders in HIV and AIDS management. Selected topics include: Antiretroviral therapy adverse effects; HIV antibody testing; Important genotype-resistant patterns; Musculoskeletal and neurologic complications; HIV infection and pregnancy; Drug resistance mutations in HIV.

Record details

ISBN: 9780763785482
ISBN: 0763785482
Physical Description: print
xii, 644 p.
Edition: 2012 ed.
Publisher: Burlington, Mass. : Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Drug administration and general abbreviations -- Commonly used drug name abbreviations -- Diagnosis: Complications of therapy -- Malignancies -- Miscellaneous: Primary HIV infection -- Opportunistic infections: bacterial -- Opportunistic infections: fungal -- Opportunitic infections: parasitic -- Opportunistic infections: viral -- Musculoskeletal complications -- Organ system: cardiac manifestations of HIV infection -- Dermatologic -- Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary -- HEENT -- Hematologic -- Neurologic -- Psychiatric -- Pulmonary -- Renal -- Drugs: Analgesics -- Androgens, anabolic steroids, and drugs for wasting -- Antimicrobial agents -- Antiretrovirals -- Chemotherapeutic agents -- Lipid-lowering agents -- Miscellaneous -- Psychiatric -- Management: Antiretroviral therapy -- Laboratory testing -- Bacteria -- Fungi -- Parasites -- Viruses -- Appendix 1: Drug-Drug interaction tables.