Autopsy of a 50-year-old woman, who had been suffering from systemic connective tissue disease, reveals small dense kidneys with lumpy surface. Microscopy of the renal glomeruli detects there foci of fibrinoid necrosis, hyaline thrombi, hematoxylin bodies, and so-called "wire loop thickening" of the basement membranes. What disease can be characterized by such changes in the kidneys?