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ReviewKidney international reports2026

Complement-Mediated Kidney Diseases: Role of Alternative Pathway in Glomerular Inflammation.

Jonathan Barratt, Peter Garred, Richard A Lafayette, Hong Zhang, Jürgen Floege

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Review in Kidney international reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jonathan BarrattDepartment of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Peter GarredDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Richard A LafayetteStanford Glomerular Disease Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Hong ZhangRenal Division, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Jürgen FloegeDivision of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complement-mediated kidney diseases (CMKDs) comprise a diverse group of rare disorders characterized by the activation of the complement system, leading to glomerular inflammation, kidney injury, and in some cases, kidney failure. Although the contribution of complement activation to disease pathogenesis varies across CMKDs, the alternative complement pathway appears to play a pivotal role in driving inflammation and tissue damage in the kidney by amplifying complement activation, regardless of the initiating complement pathway. A growing body of evidence links the alternative pathway with glomerular inflammation in CMKDs, including key mechanistic insights from preclinical

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alternative complement pathwaycomplement-mediated kidney diseasecomplement systememerging therapiesglomerular inflammation

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PMID41550519
PMCPMC12805031

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