A case of the Dubin-Johnson syndrome complicated by acute hepatitis.
A patient is described in whom the Dubin-Johnson syndrome was diagnosed after an attack of acute hepatitis at the age of 21. In the eight years following the hepatitis Dubin-Johnson pigment, initially scanty, developed to classical proportions. The defect in intracellular transport of bilirubin was thought to precede the attack of acute hepatitis.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006932:Hyperbilirubinemia / Q000209:etiology; D007566:Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron