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Causes of low complement levels

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#1 ·
Can anybody please add to this list The common causes of low complement levels.

SLE

Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis

Cholesterol embolization due to angiography
 
#4 ·
Low complement GN:

• Systemic: SLE, endocarditis, cryoglobulinemia, shunt nephritis
• Isolated renal: post-infectious GN, MPGN

Normal complement GN:

• Systemic: HSP, ANCA-associted (Wegener's, PAN), Goodpasture's syndrome, hypersensitivity vasculitis
• Isolated renal: IgA nephropathy, anti-GBM disease, RPGN
 
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