Featured Publications
About Our Research
We’ve doubled down on our commitment to research and teaching.
Arkana is a learning, teaching, and innovating practice with one unifying passion – to actively work toward the day that our research yields breakthroughs that make our services unnecessary. Eradicating rare and common diseases is the end game of all of our efforts because patient health is foremost in our minds every day. Read about some of our latest publications below.
All Publications
(475 Results)
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Mayo Clinic Consensus Report on Membranous Nephropathy: Proposal for a Novel Classification
Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a pattern of injury caused by autoantibodies binding to specific target antigens, with accumulation of immune…
Read on Mayo Clinic• October 2023
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Belatacept with time-limited tacrolimus coimmunosuppression modifies the 3-year risk of eplet mismatch in kidney transplantation
Solid organ transplant donor-recipient eplet mismatch has been correlated with donor-specific antibody (DSA) formation, antibody-mediated rejection, and overall rejection rates.…
Read on amjtransplant.org• September 2023
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Clinical Images: Sporadic inclusion body myositis in American Indian/Alaska Native patient with overlap of rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren disease
The patient, an American Indian/Native American female aged 63years, presented with a chronic symmetric inflammatory polyarthropathy, asymmetric proximal and distal…
Read on acrjournals.com• August 2023
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Clinical and Histopathologic Characteristics of Pediatric Patients With Primary Membranous Nephropathy
Primary membranous nephropathy (PMN) is uncommon in children. Therefore, data on the clinical course of affected children are scarce. In…
Read on kirereports.org• August 2023
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Delphi: A Democratic and Cost-Effective Method of Consensus Generation in Transplantation
The Thrombotic Microangiopathy Banff Working Group (TMA-BWG) was formed in 2015 to survey current practices and develop minimum diagnostic criteria…
Read on FrontiersPartnerships.org• August 2023
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Thrombotic Microangiopathy in the Renal Allograft: Results of the TMA Banff Working Group Consensus on Pathologic Diagnostic Criteria
The Banff community summoned the TMA Banff Working Group to develop minimum diagnostic criteria (MDC) and recommendations for renal transplant…
Read on FrontiersPartnerships.org• August 2023
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The Characteristics of Concurrent Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Nephritis and Membranous Nephropathy
Concurrent anti-glomerular basementmembrane (GBM) nephritis and membranous nephropathy (MN) is rare and previously addressed only in case reports or small…
Read on kirereports.org• August 2023
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From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center: Plasmablastic lymphoma presenting as a kidney mass in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and literature review
Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare, aggressive large B-cell lymphoma with plasmablastic or immunoblastic morphology and a terminally differentiated B-cell…
Read on PubMed• July 2023
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Acute Care Utilization Among Patients With Glomerular Disease
Significant differences in acute care utilization rates were observed across racial and ethnic groups in persons with prevalent glomerular disease,…
Read on AJKD• July 2023
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The Antigenic Landscape of Pediatric Membranous Nephropathy
Membranous nephropathy (MN) is rare in children, comprising 3% of pediatric nephrotic syndrome. MN may be underrecognized in children because…
Read on kirereports.org• July 2023