Table 3.

Histopathological Findings in the Native and Transplanted Kidneys in Patients in Whom Lupus Nephritis Recurred (n=20)^*

Histopathology	Native*	Transplanted*
Mesangial glomerulonephritis (WHO† II)	1	12
Focal proliferative glomerulonephritis (WHO III)	2	2
Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (WHO IV)	8	1
Membranous glomerulonephritis (WHO V)	6	5
Unknown	3	0

^*p=0.0251 (Yates Chi square = 5.02). Three patients for whom this information was not available were excluded from this computation (two patients in whom a biopsy had not been obtained and one in whom this information was missing; these three patients had mesangial glomerulonephritis in the transplanted kidneys)

^†World Health Organization.