When gynecomastia is called the enlarged breasts in men distinction is made between a genuine and a false gynecomastia. The true gynecomastia is caused by a proliferation of glandular tissue. In the gynecomastia is not a disease but rather a symptom.
So it can come from a lack of male hormones, or by an increased estrogen production and to increase proliferation of the glandular tissue. Chronic diseases, this can especially liver or kidney disease, causing gynecomastia. The false gynecomastia, however based on an accumulation of fat, as occurs in overweight or obese.
The treatment for gynecomastia is therefore also false solely in the weight loss. Sustainable treatment of true gynecomastia, however, calls whatever the therapy of the underlying disease. As these individuals, however, often suffer from their enlarged breasts, gynecomastia can be additionally treated with hormone preparations.
Not in all cases, this therapy, however, leads to success. In these cases, plastic surgery can help. During the operation, performed under general anesthesia, the excess glandular tissue is removed and any existing fat suction. In general, it requires only a few cuts.
As with all surgery carries the gynecomastia surgery without risks. Thus, for example, numbness occur, which can last up to one year. In rare cases it can also occur in scar formation.
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