The development of autoverification rules applied to urinalysis performed on the AutionMAX-SediMAX platform.

Background: Fully automated urine analyzers integrated with expert software can help to select samples that need review in routine clinical laboratory. This study aimed to define review rules to be set in the expert software Director for routine urinalysis on the AutionMAX-SediMAX platform.

Methods: A set of 1002 urinalysis data randomly extracted from the daily routine was used.

Sorafenib in elderly patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a case series.

Objective: The management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in elderly patients is significantly more complicated than in younger patients because of medical comorbidities, advanced status at diagnosis, reduced liver function and altered drug pharmacokinetics. Our objective was a revision of the charts of unselected elderly patients with HCC being treated with a reduced starting dose of sorafenib.

Methods: Activity, adverse events and quality of life were evaluated during the treatment.