acute renal failure in malignancy

Etiology

• prerenal
  • hypercalcemia
  • gastrointestinal losses during chemotherapy
  • hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• renal
  • acute tubular necrosis
    • cisplatin
    • ifosfamide
  • acute interstitial nephritis
    • lymphoma infiltrates
    • leukemia infiltrates
  • tubular obstruction
    • myeloma cast nephropathy (Ig light chains)
    • tumor lysis syndrome
    • methotrexate
  • thrombotic microangiopathy
    • mitomycin
    • cisplatin & bleomycin
    • gemcitabine
    • cyclosporine
    • hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• postrenal
  • bladder outlet obstruction
  • retroperitoneal tumor or lymphadenopathy
  • retroperitoneal fibrosis
• vascular
  • renal vein thrombus
  • renal vein tumor

More general terms

• acute renal failure (ARF)

Additional terms

• tumor lysis syndrome