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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2016 Nov 3;375(18):1749–1755. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1609214

Table 1.

Incidence of myocarditis and myositis in patients receiving nivolumab monotherapy and ipilimumab and nivolumab combination therapy

Characteristic Patients receiving nivolumab
(N = 17,620)
Patients receiving nivolumab +
ipilimumab (N = 2974)
Myocarditis* - no. (%) 10 (0.06%) 8 (0.27%)
  Fatal events - no. (%) 1 (<0.01%) 5 (0.17%)
Myositis - no. (%) 27 (0.02%) 7 (0.24%)
  Fatal events - no. (%) 2 (0.01%) 1 (0.03%)
*

Includes 6 cases of concurrent myocarditis and myositis and/or rhabdomyolysis.