@Article{Krzyżak-Jankowicz2013,
journal="Medycyna Paliatywna/Palliative Medicine",
issn="2081-0016",
volume="5",
number="4",
year="2013",
title="Pain in HIV-infected patients – an underestimated clinical problem",
abstract="World Health Organization estimates 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2011. In Poland, between 1985 and the end of 2012 16 314 cases of HIV-infected were registered. The prevalence of pain in HIV-infected patients varies between 24% and 93%. Pain syndromes seen in HIV-positive patients, can be categorized into three types: those directly related to HIV infection or consequences of immunosuppression, those caused by HIV therapies, and those unrelated to HIV infection or HIV infection therapies. HIV-infected patients often suffer from two or more pain syndromes with common prevalence of neuropathic pain. The most common pain sites are as follows: head, oral cavity, chest, abdomen, joints and muscles. Pain experienced by HIV-infected patients is very often undertreated. Opioids and adjuvants are prescribed too rarely. In this article epidemiology, patomechanism, location and causes of undertreatment of pain in HIV-infected patients were discussed.",
author="Krzyżak-Jankowicz, Magdalena
and Leppert, Wojciech
and Jankowicz, Robert",
pages="148--156",
url="https://www.termedia.pl/Pain-in-HIV-infected-patients-an-underestimated-clinical-problem,59,22223,1,1.html"
}