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Rotor syndrome is a rare, relatively benign autosomal recessive bilirubin disorder of unknown origin.
It has many things in common with Dubin-Johnson syndrome except that in Rotor Syndrome, the liver cells are not pigmented. The main symptom is a non-itching jaundice. There is a rise in bilirubin in the patient’s serum, mainly of the conjugated type.
It can be differentiated from Dubin-Johnson syndrome in the following ways:
Rotor syndrome is named after the Filipino internist, Arturo Belleza Rotor (1907-1988).[1]
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