Makharia Govind K, Garg Pramod K, Gupta Siddhartha Datta, Tandon Rakesh K
Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Indian J Gastroenterol. 2002 May-Jun;21(3):118-9.
Dubin-Johnson syndrome is neither complicated by liver cell necrosis nor associated with portal hypertension. We report a 22-year-old man who had recurrent episodes of jaundice (conjugated hyperbilirubinemia) because of Dubin-Johnson syndrome and portal hypertension secondary to portal vein thrombosis. The relationship between Dubin-Johnson syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in this case is most likely a chance occurrence.