ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Metabolic disorders
Other metabolic disorders
5D01 — Tumour lysis syndrome

ICD-11 5D01 — Tumour lysis syndrome

This is a group of metabolic complications that can occur after treatment of cancer, usually lymphomas and leukaemias, and sometimes even without treatment. These complications are caused by the breakdown products of dying cancer cells and include hyperkalaemia, hyperphosphataemia, hyperuricaemia and hyperuricosuria, hypocalcaemia, and consequent acute uric acid nephropathy and acute renal failure.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.