Complement degradation product C4d has become an important marker of humoral or antibody-mediated rejection in renal and heart allograft biopsies. Although there have been several reports on the ...

Biopsies were selected based on availability of both frozen and paraffin sections for analysis. The routine practice in our medical center is to submit only formalin-fixed tissue. However, physicians ...

Background and Objectives: Glomerular C4d deposits are associated the severity and outcomes of IgA nephropathy. Whether this holds true in immunoglobulin A vasculitis (IgAV) is not known. The main ...

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and localization of complement factor C4d in renal biopsies from patients with lupus nephritis (LN), as well as its associations with the ...