xvi, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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complement system in renal diseases / Momir Macanovic and Peter Lachmann --; Complement in renal transplantation / Wuding Zhou and Steven H. Sacks --; C1q and the glomerulonephritides : therapeutic approaches for the treatment of complement-mediated kidney diseases / Stefan P. Berger, Tom W.L. Groeneveld, Anja Roos and Mohamed R. Daha --; Complement deficient mice as model systems for kidney diseases / Joshua M. Thurman and V. Michael Holers --; Non-shiga toxin-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome / Marina Noris and Giuseppe Remuzzi --; Role of complement and factor H in hemolytic uremic syndrome / Christine Skerka and Mihaly Jozsi --; Genetic testing in atypical HUS and the role of membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46) and factor I / Timothy H.J. Goodship, Veronique Fremeaux-Bacchi and John P. Atkinson --; Towards a new classification of hemolytic uremic syndrome / Maren Salzmann, Michael Hoffmann, Gisa Schluh, Peter Riegler, Markus Cybulla and Hartmut P.H. Neumann --; Therapeutic strategies for atypical and recurrent hemolytic uremic syndromes (HUS) / Reinhard Wurzner and Lothar B. Zimmerhackl --; Complement defects in children which result in kidney diseases : diagnosis and therapy / Christoph Licht and Bernd Hoppe --; role of complement in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis / Peter F. Zipfel, Richard J.H. Smith and Stefan Heinen --; experience of a patient advocacy group / Pearl L. Lewis.