AIDS And Neurology (Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery Monographs)

Increasingly, neurologists are encountering AIDS patients in their day-to-day practice. Neurological symptoms can be caused by the virus itself, by opportunistic pathogens, or by the side effects of antiviral therapy. This clinically oriented volume provides neurologists with guidance on the practical issues of differential diagnosis and management. Following a contextual introduction, it covers seroconversion and the asymptomatic years; HIV-associated dementia complex; HIV infection in children; spinal cord disease; peripheral nerve disease; muscle disease; opportunistic infections fungi, viruses, bacteria, parasites; neoplasms; cerebrovascular disease; common neurological symptoms in HIV; and investigations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.