Gynaecomastia is the benign enlargment of male breast tissue. Male breast enlargement due to adipose is pseudogynaecomastia.
Causes of gynaecomastia include
Medications
- Cardiac medications
- spironolactone
- eplerinone
- amiodarone
- digoxin
- calcium channel blockers
- Psychiatric medications
- TCAs
- risperidone
- diazepam
- Other
- ketoconazole
- metronidazole
- finasteride
- PPIs
- cimetidine
- phenytoin
- steroids
- chemotherapy drugs
Recreational drugs
- marijuana
- heroin
- alcohol
Pathological
- Kallmann's syndrome
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- Hyperthyroidism
- cirrhosis
- tumours
- testes
- lung
- adrenal
- pituitary
Physiological
- newborns
- adolescence
- old age (decreasing testosterone)
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