Alcoholic hepatitis is a severe ... Many patients fulfil the criteria for acute-on-chronic liver failure, though often the diagnosis of cirrhosis is only made after hospitalization.

Diagnosis: Alcohol-related anemia caused by acute hemolysis, sideroblastic anemia and cirrhosis ... (mean corpuscular volume <101 fl) and thrombocytopenia (66 × 10 9 platelets/l blood).