[Monitoring of the clinical and morphological course of glomerulonephritis]

It is reported on the clinical and morphological course of 50 patients with glomerulonephritis. The period of observation extended from 6 months to 10 years. The judgment of the clinical and morphological course was done on the basis of the laboratory findings or by means of the control biopsy. In the period of observation 36 patients were treated with different medicaments, whereas 14 patients were observed without treatment. A positive success of the therapy could not be recognized in the group of patients described the clinical and morphological course in the patients is described and the author adopts a definite attitude to the necessity of control biopsies.