Acute Tumor Lysis Syndrome Secondary to Hydroxyurea in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To report 2 cases of acute tumor lysis syndrome (ATLS) associated with hydroxyurea treatment. CASE SUMMARY: A 79-year-old woman diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia presented with an acute blastic transformation. She was promptly hydrated, started on allopurinol, and treated with hydroxyurea. About 24 hours later, her biochemistry panel showed parameters consistent with ATLS when compared with pretreatment levels. The second case was a 76-year-old man newly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia presenting with high blast fraction. He was given appropriate hydration and allopurinol prophylaxis, and was started on high-dose hydroxyurea treatment. He became symptomatic after 12 hours and results of his blood work were consistent with ATLS. DISCUSSION: ATLS is a well-known metabolic disturbance that occurs after cell destruction of rapidly growing tumors. In standard doses, hydroxyurea leads to cell death in the S phase and is not thought to cause significant cell lysis. However, in large doses, it possibly acts by a different mechanism and had a direct cytolytic effect associated with ATLS in our patients. CONCLUSIONS: Although ATLS caused by hydroxyurea appears to be rare, patients at risk should be closely monitored for this complication. An objective causality assessment using the Naranjo probability scale revealed that the adverse drug reaction was probable between ATLS and hydroxyurea therapy in these 2 patients.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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