Improved survival in lupus nephritis in the modern era (1979 - 1989).

We analysed outcome retrospectively in relation to treatment and disease stage in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and glomerulonephritis, and compared these with similar patients referred to us during 1969 - 78, and other published series from the same period. Eighty two patients with lupus nephritis were referred during 1979 - 89. Of these, 73 were followed up for a mean of 58.