[The progression rates of different morphological forms of chronic glomerulonephritis in the pre-azotemia period (is the morphological form of chronic glomerulonephritis the factor that determines the prognosis?)].

The multivariate analysis of overall clinicomorphological symptoms in 121 patients with chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN) allowed formulation of independent prognostic factors indicative of the time to chronic renal failure. Similar for diverse morphological CGN forms prognostic characters are those of CGN aggravation frequency, arterial hypertension, serum creatinine concentration, the pattern of tubulointerstitial changes at the time of renal biopsy. The speed of CGN morphological variants is approximately the same in similar expression of prognostically significant characters.