Step I Friend or Foe: Complement and Autoimmune Diseases

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Complement helps clear antigen-antibody complexes...but it also acts as an inflammatory mediator. So does it help or promotore Type 3 hypersensitivities?
Why does a complement deficiency lead to lupus susceptibility if that also prevents acute inflammation activation?