Table 2: Classification system for tumor lysis syndrome, according to Cairo and Bishop [3].

           

Laboratory tumor lysis syndrome: abnormality in two or more of the following, occurring within three days before or seven days after chemotherapy.

    • uric acid  ≥ 0,476 mmol/l or 25% increase
    • potassium ≥ 6 mmol/l or 25% increase
    • phosphate ≥ 1,45 mmol/l or 25% increase
    • calcium ≤ 1,75 mmol/l or 25% decrease

Clinical tumor lysis syndrome: laboratory tumor lysis syndrome plus one or more of the following:

    • increased serum creatinine (1.5 times upper limit of normal)
    • cardiac arrhythmia or sudden death
    • seizure