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Few areas of medicine remain untouched and unchanged by the AIDS pandemic. Ophthalmology is no exception. Ophthalmic manifestations were described in the first reports of patients with the disease, and nearly three quarters of all patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have ocular complications at some point in the course of the disease. Because of AIDS, many ophthalmologists now routinely diagnose and treat diseases that only a decade ago were either unknown or exceedingly rare. Nevertheless, there is a surprising dearth of textbooks on the ocular problems associated with AIDS. The book by Orellana et al. goes far
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