Meeting
Abstract Number: 328
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a major life-threatening oncological emergency where accelerated damage of rapidly proliferating tumor cells results in critical metabolic derangements including hyperuricemia, hyperkalemia, hyperphosphatemia, and hypocalcemia potentially leading to acute kidney injury (AKI) and multi-organ failure. TLS has been well documented in hematologic malignancies but is extremely rare in solid neoplasms, […]