. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 30.

Published in final edited form as: Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2019 Sep;26(5):369–375. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2019.08.011

Table 2.

Proposed Criteria for Clinical Classification of Lupus Podocytopathy

Classification	Subdivision
Lupus podocytopathy, minimal change disease variant	With mesangial proliferation lesions and mesangial deposits (additional diagnosis of LN II)
	Without mesangial proliferation lesions (if deposits present, additional diagnosis of LN I)
Lupus podocytopathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis variant	Not otherwise specified
	Perihilar
	Cellular
	Tip
	Collapsing variant

Abbreviation: LN, lupus nephritis.