Severe jaundice due to coexistence of Dubin-Johnson syndrome and hereditary spherocytosis: a case report

Turk J Gastroenterol. 2011 Aug;22(4):422-5. doi: 10.4318/tjg.2011.0261.

Abstract

Dubin-Johnson syndrome is a chronic, benign, intermittent jaundice, mostly of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia. The level of bilirubin is not expected to be more than 20 mg/dl in this syndrome. In this article, we report a patient who was evaluated for hyperbilirubinemia and liver function test abnormalities and diagnosed with Dubin-Johnson syndrome coexisting with hereditary spherocytosis. We suggest that other diseases should be investigated if patients with Dubin-Johnson syndrome present with severe hyperbilirubinemia. Dubin-Johnson syndrome accompanied by hemolytic diseases might also have high coproporphyrin levels (as in Rotor's syndrome) than expected in pure Dubin-Johnson syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Humans
  • Hyperbilirubinemia / etiology
  • Jaundice / blood
  • Jaundice / etiology*
  • Jaundice / pathology
  • Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic / blood
  • Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic / complications*
  • Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic / pathology
  • Liver Diseases / etiology
  • Liver Function Tests
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonia / blood
  • Pneumonia / complications*
  • Pneumonia / therapy
  • Spherocytosis, Hereditary / blood
  • Spherocytosis, Hereditary / complications*
  • Spherocytosis, Hereditary / pathology
  • Sputum / cytology