Tony is a chronic alcoholic with cirrhosis of the liver, a condition in which liver cells die and are replaced by connective tissue. Which of the following signs would you not expect to observe in Tony?

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Impaired erythropoiesis, or the decreased production of red blood cells, is not directly related to liver cirrhosis. The liver's primary roles in relation to blood include detoxification, protein synthesis (including clotting factors and albumin), and metabolism, rather than the production of blood cells, which mainly occurs in the bone marrow.

Tony Is a Chronic Alcoholic with Cirrhosis of the Liver