Complement in Renal Disease as a Potential Contributor to Arterial Hypertension

• Main Authors: Lisa-Maren Fischer (Author), Laura A. Fichte (Author), Maike Büttner-Herold (Author), Fulvia Ferrazzi (Author), Kerstin Amann (Author), Kerstin Benz (Author), Christoph Daniel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Complement deposition is prevalent in kidney biopsies of patients with arterial hypertension and hypertensive nephropathy, but an association of hypertension and complement deposition or involvement of complement in the pathogenesis of hypertensive nephropathy has not been shown to date....