Background: The optimal duration of maintenance therapy is controversial in proliferative lupus nephritis. Discordance between clinical parameters of renal remission and histological findings in immediate post induction phase as well as maintenance phase has made repeat biopsy a compulsory tool to confirm the histological remission. But timing of repeat kidney biopsy is debatable. Aim of this study was to find the pattern of repeat kidney biopsy findings proliferative lupus nephritis