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| Title |
Case report: lupus nephritis with autoantibodies to complement alternative pathway proteins and C3 gene mutation
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| Published in |
BMC Nephrology, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12882-015-0032-6 |
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| Authors |
Pilar Nozal, Sofía Garrido, Jorge Martínez-Ara, María Luz Picazo, Laura Yébenes, Rita Álvarez-Doforno, Sheila Pinto, Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba, Margarita López-Trascasa |
| Abstract |
Glomerulonephritis is one of the most severe complications of lupus, a systemic disease with multi-organ involvement, with tissue damage produced mainly by complement activation. As a result of this activation, patients with active lupus present hypocomplementemia during disease flares, but C3 and C4 levels are recovered between episodes. We present a patient who suffered two lupus nephritis episodes in 5 years, achieving complete remission with treatment after both of them, but with C3 levels persistently below normal range. Genetic study revealed that the patient carried a mutation in heterozygosis in the C3 gene. Serial sera samples were analyzed, and autoantibodies to complement alternative pathway proteins (Factor I, Factor B, C3 and Properdin) were found. Functional assays showed that these autoantibodies cause alternative pathway activation. This case is the first reported of a heterozygous C3 mutation associated with lupus nephritis and autoantibodies against complement alternative pathway proteins (Factor I, Factor B, C3 and Properdin).These autoantibodies cause activation of this pathway and this fact could explain that the tissue damage is restricted to the kidney. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Spain | 2 | 67% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 30 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 5 | 16% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 13% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Librarian | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
| Other | 6 | 19% |
| Unknown | 7 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 39% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 10% |
| Psychology | 2 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 8 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2022.
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#1,108
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