Transmission of rheumatoid arthritis through blood transfusion: a retrospective cohort study

Ann Rheum Dis. 2018 Oct;77(10):1536-1537. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212844. Epub 2018 Mar 1.

¹ Department of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
² Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Department of Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁷ Department of Clinical Immunology, The Blood Bank, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁸ Department of Clinical Immunology, Næstved Sygehus, Næstved, Denmark.
⁹ Department of Clinical Immunology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Section, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹¹ Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Department of Hematology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Keywords: ant-ccp; autoimmunity; epidemiology; rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatoid factor.

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