Pauci-immune and Immune Glomerular Lesions in Kidney Transplants for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Abstract

Allografts from recipients with SLE had typical immune complex-mediated GN and atypical pauci-immune, proliferative GN and segmental glomerular sclerosis. Atypical glomerulopathies like these suggest a role for nonimmune complex-mediated glomerular injury in recurrent lupus GN.