Savient Announces Multiple Abstracts Related to KRYSTEXXA® in the Treatment of Refractory Chronic Gout to be Presented at the 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVNT) today announced that several abstracts related to KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) in the treatment of patients with Refractory Chronic Gout (RCG) will be presented at the 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting taking place in Washington D.C., from November 9-14, 2012.

Full text of the following accepted abstracts can be accessed by visiting the American College of Rheumatology website at www.rheumatology.org.

  • Complete Tophus Response in Patients with Chronic Gout Initiating Pegloticase Treatment; Abstract #1913
  • Clinical Efficacy Outcomes with Up to 3 Years of Pegloticase Treatment for Refractory Chronic Gout; Abstract #159
  • Improvements in Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life in Chronic Gout Patients Refractory to Conventional Therapies Treated with Pegloticase: Results from Responder Cohort; Abstract #147
  • Patterns of Gout Treatment and Related Outcomes in US Community Rheumatology Practices: the Relation Between Gout Flares, Time in Treatment, Serum Uric Acid Level and Urate Lowering Therapy; Abstract #1904
  • Pegloticase Long Term Safety: Data from the Open Label Extension Trial; Abstract #160
  • Post‐Marketing Safety Surveillance Data Reveals Patterns of Use for Pegloticase in Refractory Chronic Gout; Abstract #169
  • Relative Risk of Infusion Reactions with KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) from Post-Approval Safety Data: Results from Sept 2010 to June 2012; Abstract #170
  • Serum Uric Acid as a Biomarker for Mitigation of Infusion Reactions in Patients Treated with Pegloticase for Refractory Chronic Gout; Abstract #1916

ABOUT SAVIENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.   
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) for the treatment of chronic gout in adult patients refractory to conventional therapy. Savient has exclusively licensed worldwide rights to the technology related to KRYSTEXXA and its uses from Duke University ("Duke") and Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("MVP").  Duke developed the recombinant uricase enzyme and MVP developed the PEGylation technology used in the manufacture of KRYSTEXXA. MVP and Duke have been granted U.S. and foreign patents disclosing and claiming the licensed technology and, in addition, Savient owns or co-owns U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications, which collectively form a broad portfolio of patents covering the composition, manufacture and methods of use and administration of KRYSTEXXA.  Savient is the manufacturer of Oxandrin® (oxandrolone tablets, USP) CIII which is distributed in the U.S. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.savient.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS   
All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results and achievements to differ materially from those expressed in such statements. These risks, trends and uncertainties are in some instances beyond our control. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "will" and other similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. In particular, any statements regarding the safety and efficacy of KRYSTEXXA®, the potential to expand the clinical utility of KRYSTEXXA, status of our KRYSTEXXA marketing efforts in the US and additional plans related thereto both in the US and ex-US, market demand and reimbursement for KRYSTEXXA, our view of the refractory chronic gout (RCG) market size in the US and ex-US, and our market expansion plans including our MAA filing before the EMA are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties and are based on our assessment and interpretation of the currently available data and information, current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our business and the biopharmaceutical and specialty pharmaceutical industries in which we operate. Important factors that may affect our ability to achieve the matters addressed in these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, developments that may arise in the litigation with Tang Capital; our ability to commercialize KRYSTEXXA; the risk that the market for KRYSTEXXA is smaller than we have anticipated; our ability to retain the personnel; our reliance on third parties to manufacture KRYSTEXXA; competition from existing therapies and therapies that are currently under development, including therapies that are significantly less expensive than KRYSTEXXA; our ability to gain market acceptance for KRYSTEXXA among physicians, patients, health care payers and others in the medical community; whether we are able to obtain financing, if needed; economic, political and other risks associated with foreign operations; risks of maintaining protection for our intellectual property; risks of an adverse determination in intellectual property litigation; and risks associated with stringent government regulation of the biopharmaceutical industry and other important factors set forth more fully in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to which investors are referred for further information. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of publication of this press release. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements that we make. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments that we may make. We do not have a policy of updating or revising forward-looking statements and, except as required by law, assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

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