The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Book Review
PreviousPrevious
Volume 354:775 February 16, 2006 Number 7
NextNext

The Neurology of AIDS

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF
-PDA Full Text
-Purchase this article

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited
-E-mail When Letters Appear

More Information
Second edition. Edited by Howard E. Gendelman, Igor Grant, Ian Paul Everall, Stuart A. Lipton, and Susan Swindells. 829 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. $225. ISBN 0-19-852610-5.

Neurologic disorders in AIDS have been numerous, diverse, common, and prominent from the time the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) emerged more than two decades ago. These disorders have changed steadily as infection with HIV has been transformed by potent antiretroviral therapy into a manageable chronic condition. The potential of the brain as a sanctuary for HIV gives AIDS neurology special importance in the eventual eradication of the disease. Large populations worldwide continue to have the intense neurologic complications of AIDS that were seen at the beginning of the epidemic. Keeping abreast of this field is a challenge even for clinicians . . . [Full Text of this Article]




HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.