Clinical significance of circulating immune complexes in children with glomerulonephritis

: The paper is concerned with the determination of the physicochemical properties of the circulating immune complexes in children with different varieties of glomerulonephritis at different disease stages. The assessment was made of the diagnostic and prognostic significance of these complexes. It has been shown that the intensity and the frequency of the concomitant signs of glomerulonephritis turn out maximal in patients, provided the circulation contains the pathogenic complexes whose long demonstration in the active disease phase is of unfavourable prognostic significance.