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An Interdisciplinary Diagnostic Approach to Guide Therapy in C3 Glomerulopathy

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Since the re-classification of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis the new disease entity C3 glomerulopathy is diagnosed if C3 deposition is clearly dominant over immunoglobulins in immunohistochemistry or immunofluorescence.
Tilman Schmidt, Sara Afonso, Luce Perie, Karin Heidenreich, Sonia Wulf, Christian F. Krebs, Christian F. Krebs, Peter F. Zipfel, Peter F. Zipfel, Thorsten Wiech   +9 more
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C3 glomerulopathy: consensus report [PDF]

Kidney International, 2013
C3 glomerulopathy is a recently introduced pathological entity whose original definition was glomerular pathology characterized by C3 accumulation with absent or scanty immunoglobulin deposition. In August 2012, an invited group of experts (comprising the authors of this document) in renal pathology, nephrology, complement biology, and complement ...
Pickering, MC, D'Agati, VD, Nester, CM, Smith, RJ, Haas, M, Appel, GB, Alpers, CE, Bajema, IM, Bedrosian, C, Braun, M, Doyle, M, Fakhouri, F, Fervenza, FC, Fogo, AB, Fremeaux-Bacchi, V, Gale, DP, De Jorge, EG, Griffin, G, Harris, CL, Holers, VM, Johnson, S, Lavin, PJ, Medjeral-Thomas, N, Morgan, BP, Nast, CC, Noel, L-H, Peters, DK, Rodriguez de Cordoba, S, Servais, A, Sethi, S, Song, W-C, Tamburini, P, Thurman, JM, Zavros, M, Cook, HT   +34 more
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Three cases of monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance after kidney transplantation. De novo C3 glomerulopathy

Nefrología (English Edition), 2019
Monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance includes all renal disorders caused by a monoclonal immunoglobulin secreted by a non-malignant B-cell clone.
Núria Serra, Carme Facundo, Cristina Canal, Yolanda Arce, Nadia Ayasreh, Anna Vila, Beatriz Bardají, Irene Silva, Víctor López, Silvia Benito, Jose Ballarín, Lluís Guirado   +11 more
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A new complement factor B mutation associated with crescentic C3 glomerulopathy; a case report [PDF]

Journal of Nephropathology, 2019
Background: C3 glomerulopathy is a recently described entity classified as complementassociated glomerular disease. Case Presentation: We report a case of a 48-year-old man referred to the nephrology department for nephrotic syndrome with rapidly ...
Sofia Semedo Coelho, Ana Raquel Fernandes, Elsa Soares, Patrícia Valério, Bruno Matos, Helena Romão, Mário Góis, Helena Sousa, Teresa Fidalgo, Ana Sofia Natário, Carlos Barreto   +10 more
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Gain-of-Function Mutations R249C and S250C in Complement C2 Protein Increase C3 Deposition in the Presence of C-Reactive Protein

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
The impairment of the alternative complement pathway contributes to rare kidney diseases such as atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) and C3 glomerulopathy (C3G).
Aleksandra Urban, Daria Kowalska, Grzegorz Stasiłojć, Alicja Kuźniewska, Anna Skrobińska, Emilia Arjona, Eugenia Castellote Alonso, María Ángeles Fenollosa Segarra, Ilse Jongerius, Ilse Jongerius, Robbert Spaapen, Simon Satchell, Marcel Thiel, Stanisław Ołdziej, Santiago Rodriguez de Córdoba, Marcin Okrój   +15 more
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Overview of C3 Glomerulopathy [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2016
C3 glomerulopathy is an umbrella term, which includes several rare forms of glomerulonephritis (GN) with underlying defects in the alternate complement cascade. A common histological feature noted in all these GN is dominant C3 deposition in the glomerulus.
Master Sankar Raj, Vimal, Gordillo, Roberto, Chand, Deepa H.   +2 more
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C4d at Crossroads Between Post-Infectious Glomerulonephritis and C3 Glomerulopathy

International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease, 2021
Shaarif Bashir,1 Mudassar Hussain,1 Aurangzeb Afzal,2 Usman Hassan,1 Maryam Hameed,1 Sajid Mushtaq1 1Department of Pathology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan; 2Department of Nephrology, Lahore General ...
Bashir S, Hussain M, Afzal A, Hassan U, Hameed M, Mushtaq S   +5 more
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Tres casos de gammapatía monoclonal de significado renal postrasplante renal: nefropatía c3 de novo

Nefrología, 2019
Resumen: La gammapatía monoclonal de significado renal incluye todas las enfermedades renales causadas por una inmunoglobulina monoclonal secretada por un clon de célula B no maligno. Por definición, los pacientes con gammapatía monoclonal de significado
Núria Serra, Carme Facundo, Cristina Canal, Yolanda Arce, Nadia Ayasreh, Anna Vila, Beatriz Bardají, Irene Silva, Víctor López, Silvia Benito, Jose Ballarín, Lluís Guirado   +11 more
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Eculizumab as a treatment for C3 glomerulopathy: a single-center retrospective study

BMC Nephrology, 2023
Background C3 Glomerulopathy (C3G) is a rare glomerular disease caused by dysregulation of the complement pathway. Based on its pathophysiology, treatment with the monoclonal antibody eculizumab targeting complement C5 may be a therapeutic option. Due to
Thomas Welte, Frederic Arnold, Lukas Westermann, Felix A. Rottmann, Martin J. Hug, Elke Neumann-Haefelin, Athina Ganner   +6 more
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C3 glomerulonephritis associated with monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
C3 glomerulopathy represents a heterogeneous group of glomerulopathies characterized by hyperactivity of the alternative complement pathway. Although the pathophysiology is incompletely understood, an association between this disease and monoclonal ...
Bárbara Beirão, Mariana Freitas, Natália Silva, Patrícia Ferraz, Catarina Prata, Teresa Morgado   +5 more
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