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Safety of Abatacept Administered Intravenously in Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Integrated Analyses of up to 8 Years of Treatment from the Abatacept Clinical Trial Program

Michael E. Weinblatt, Larry W. Moreland, Rene Westhovens, Roger B. Cohen, Sheila M. Kelly, Nader Khan, Ramesh Pappu, Ingrid Delaet, Allison Luo, Sheila Gujrathi and Marc C. Hochberg
The Journal of Rheumatology June 2013, 40 (6) 787-797; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.120906
Michael E. Weinblatt
From Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) Arthritis and Autoimmunity Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey; and University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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