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Improvement of anemia and liver dysfunction during hospital stay on three occasions. (A) First admission from December 2007 to January 2008. (B) Second admission from December 2008 to January 2009. (C) Third admission in November 2009.. Note: Solid line indicates hemoglobin (Hb) (g/dL), and broken line indicates gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GTP) (U/L).
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As shown in Figure 1, in all of the three occasions of his hospitalization, without any specific treatment such as supplementation of folate, apart from bed rest and abstinence from alcohol, his anemia improved dramatically in association with a rapid decline of serum gamma-GTP values and normalization of MCV over a period of 1 month's hospital stay on every occasion. As noted in Figure 1, it was apparent that he was not able to abstain from alcohol once he was discharged from the hospital.