Updated consensus statement on biological agents for the treatment of rheumatic diseases, 2012

Daniel E Furst; Edward Clark Keystone; Alexander K So; Jürgen Braun; Ferry C Breedveld; Gerd R Burmester; Fabrizio De Benedetti; Thomas Dörner; Paul Emery; Roy Fleischmann; Allan Gibofsky; J R Kalden; Arthur Kavanaugh; Bruce Kirkham; Philip Mease; A Rubbert-Roth; Joachim Sieper; Nora G Singer; Josef S Smolen; Piet L C M Van Riel; Michael H Weisman; Kevin L Winthrop

doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203348

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Updated consensus statement on biological agents for the treatment of rheumatic diseases, 2012

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Daniel E Furst Department of Rheumatology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Edward Clark Keystone Department of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alexander K So PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jürgen Braun Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ferry C Breedveld Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gerd R Burmester Laboratorio di Reumatologia, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Fabrizio De Benedetti Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charite-University Medicine, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Thomas Dörner Institut für Transfusionsmedizin, Klinische Hämostaseologie, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paul Emery Section of Musculoskeletal Disease Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine and Teaching Hospitals Trust, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Roy Fleischmann University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Allan Gibofsky Rheumatology/Medicine Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
J R Kalden Department of Rheumatology, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Arthur Kavanaugh Department of Rheumatology/Allergy Immunology, University California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bruce Kirkham Rheumatology Department, Guys Hospital, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Philip Mease Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
A Rubbert-Roth Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Joachim Sieper Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, Charite Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Nora G Singer Division of Rheumatology, MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve Society, Cleveland, Ohio, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Josef S Smolen 2nd Department of Medicine, Krankenhaus Lainz, Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Piet L C M Van Riel Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael H Weisman Division of Rheumatology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kevin L Winthrop Department of Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Professor Daniel E Furst, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA—RM 32–59, 1000 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA; defurst{at}mednet.ucla.edu

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Furst DE, Keystone EC, So AK, et al

Updated consensus statement on biological agents for the treatment of rheumatic diseases, 2012

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2013;72:ii2-ii34.

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Accepted February 17, 2013
First published March 25, 2013.

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October 25, 2017

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