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HIV Essentials 2010, Third Edition

Author(s): Paul E. Sax, MD, Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Calvin J. Cohen, MD, MS, Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of AIDS Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763777098
  • Paperback    252 pages      © 2010
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Overview

The World's leading experts provide all the 'Essentials' needed to manage patients in the office, on the ward and in the ICU. 

HIV Essentials, 2010 incorporates the latest clinical guidelines into a step-by-step guide to the diagnosis, evaluation, management and prevention of HIV infection and its complications.

ShowKey Features

  • HIV diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and prevention
  • Opportunistic infections and other HIV Complications
  • Treatment of HIV and pregnancy
  • Antiretroviral drug summaries
  • Post-exposure Prophylaxis
  • New section to each drug summary called "How Supplied" describes the commercially available dosage forms for all the ARV's
  • Update drug summaries for Telbivudine (Tyzeka), Darunarvir Ethanolate (Prezista) DVR, Entecavir (Baraclude) ETV, Fosamprenavir (Lexiva) FPV

 

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter  1  Overview of HIV Infection
Chapter  2  Diagnosis and Evaluation of HIV Infection
Chapter  3  Treatment of HIV Infection
Chapter  4  Treatment Failure and Resistance Testing
Chapter  5  Prophylaxis and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections
Chapter  6  Complications of HIV Infection
Chapter  7  HIV Infection and Pregnancy
Chapter  8  Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
Chapter  9  Antiretroviral Drug Summaries
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Paul E. Sax, MD-Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Paul E. Sax, MD is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston.  He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School since 1992, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Sax received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1987, served his residency in Internal Medicine at BWH, and continued his postdoctoral education with a fellowship in the Infectious Disease Unit of Masschusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Sax is Editor-in-Chief of AIDS Clinical Care, is on the peer review board of the HIV/AIDS Section of UpToDate, and is the HIV disease section editor for Infectious Diseases Special Edition and Antibiotic Essentials.  He is also on the core faculty of the International AIDS Society - USA and the New England AIDS Education and Training Center.  He is actively involved in patient care, teaching and HIV research, and his main research interests include clinical trials of antiretroviral therapies, cost effectiveness of management strategies for HIV, toxicity of antiretroviral treatment, and identification, treatment and outcome of primary HIV infection.  He is presently the principal investigator at the BWH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and a member of the Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (CEPAC) Research Group.  Dr. Sax lectures nationally and internationally on HIV therapy and has contributed many HIV-related publications to the medical literature.  He was awarded the Edward H. Kass Award in Clinical Excellence in 1993, the Harvard-Longwood Infectious Disease Fellowship Award in Clinical Teaching in 1997, and a Distinguished Faculty Resident Mentoring Award in 2003.

Additional Titles by this Author

Calvin J. Cohen, MD, MS-Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD-Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of AIDS Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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  • This is a useful, well thought out pocket guide to HIV care. Its format and layout make the information easy to access and understand. Having information from national experts at one's fingertips is a very useful. Because HIV care is an ever-changing field, frequent updates to this guide are essential, especially for those who do not always have access to the Internet while providing care. I have given it to my fellows in infectious diseases as a reference guide.

    Natalie Neu,  MD
    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

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