[Lupus nephritis--clinical and morfological correlation].

During the last five years at our Department renal biopsy was carried out in 41 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. On the basis of the pathologic findings glomerular changes were classified as follows: minimal in 5 patients; mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis in 11; focal and segmental proliferative glomerulonephritis in 5; diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis in 15; membranous glomerulonephritis in 3, and diffuse sclerosing glomerulo-nephritis in 2 cases. Morphological changes of renal biopsy did not correlate with the degree of deterioration of glomerular function.