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A graph depicting platelet count over time during this patient's hospital stay. The surgery was performed on hospital day 5.
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This trend is presented in Figure 1.
A graph depicting AST and ALT levels over time during this patient's hospital stay. Surgery was performed on hospital day 5.
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The patient's platelets had dropped to 10,000 platelets/microliter with an INR of 1.3 (with normal range around 0.89-1.07), and complete metabolic panel was also significant for an aspartate transaminase (AST) level of 4461 and alanine transaminase (ALT) level of 2796, as shown in Figure 2; a normal AST level ranges around 8 to 48 units per liter (U/L), and a normal ALT level around 7 to 55 U/L.