[Assessment of the clinical course of chronic glomerulonephritis].

Clinical course of chronic glomerulonephritis (CG) with recognition of 4 types by frequency of exacerbations was investigated in 592 patients with morphologically verified diagnosis observed for a long time. The disease ran a stable course. Contrary to patients with mesangioproliferative CG who had rare or moderate-frequency exacerbations, patients with membranoproliferative disease had exacerbations annually. This suggests correlation between the form of anatomical changes and the process activity. Irrespective of CG morphological form, the survival of CG patients is closely related to the disease course. Taken into account, this fact may serve the tool of prognosis, choice of treatment intensity and duration of follow-up.