Managing long-term complications of HIV infection.
Now that advances in treatment have transformed HIV into a chronic, manageable disease, patients are facing cardiovascular and metabolic complications you might not have expected 15 years ago. Here's how to help your patient manage them.
Kirton
Carl A
CA
North General Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
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