RT Book, Section
A1 Carr, Daniel B.
A1 Gandhi, Preeti
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131935623
T1 Pain in HIV and AIDS
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131935623
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  older  of  the  coauthors  (DBC)  was  a  medical  trainee  when  five  previously  healthy  young  men  in  Los  Angeles  were  reported  to  have  developed  an  unusual  pneumonia  caused  by  Pneumocystis  carinii  (now  termed  Pneumocystis  jiroveci),  which  was  fatal  in  two.  Reported  in  the  June  5,  1981,  issue  of  the  Centers  for  Disease  Control  and  Prevention's  (CDC's)  Morbidity  and  Mortality  Weekly  Reports,  these  are  now  taken  as  the  index  cases  of  acquired  immune  deficiency  syndrome  (AIDS),  a  worldwide  epidemic  unequalled  in  human  history.  Several  years  later,  after  the  causative  agent  was  identified  as  human  immunodeficiency  virus-1  (HIV-1),  banked  serologic  specimens  from  a  handful  of  isolated  earlier  cases  of  undiagnosed  catastrophic  acute  illness  retroactively  tested  positive  for  the  same  agent.  However,  1981  is  the  reference  date  for  the  current  catastrophe,  subsequent  voluminous  epidemiologic  analyses,  and  recent  (2011)  reflections  on  AIDS  reaching  age  30  years.1