1. Male physiological breast development often occurs in newborns, adolescence and menopause, and most people will heal automatically. Generally speaking, the main factor is the imbalance of hormones in adolescence, which generally disappears on its own.
2. However, if adult men have pathological changes and take hormone drugs, it will also lead to imbalance of hormone secretion in the body, leading to a decrease in female hormone secretion, which will lead to symptoms of breast development in adult men.
3. Some men are often accompanied by endocrine diseases, especially patients with benign and malignant adrenal tumors, which easily lead to breast development.
4. Some men take some drugs, which will also lead to breast development. For example, progesterone, isoniazid, tricyclic antidepressants, digitalis and other drugs will lead to estrogen metabolism, which will lead to increased breast development. For example, patients with chronic nephritis and thyroid dysfunction, because men taking spironolactone for a long time will also cause breast enlargement.
Does male breast hypertrophy need treatment?
The answer is, of course, yes. Flat and broad chest is a symbol of male sexual characteristics, and male breast hypertrophy will have an impact on patients' body and mind. Therefore, the treatment of male breast hypertrophy is very important for patients to restore self-confidence and have a normal social life.
Many patients want to receive treatment, but they don't know which department to go to. Plastic surgeons who specialize in breast plastic surgery have a set of systematic minimally invasive treatment methods for male breast development, which can reduce physical trauma and achieve good surgical results. At the time of seeing a doctor, professional doctors will make clear the types of breast hypertrophy through face-to-face consultation, physical examination and other related examinations, and then design corresponding treatment plans according to the classification.
1. For patients with simple fat accumulation, liposuction can achieve therapeutic effect.
2. For patients with simple glandular hyperplasia, the overdeveloped glands can be removed through small incision in plastic surgery to achieve therapeutic effect.
3. For patients with fat accumulation and glandular hyperplasia, it is necessary to combine glandular resection and liposuction to achieve therapeutic effect.
4. In addition, for male patients with particularly severe mastopathy, that is, patients with obvious breast ptosis like women, it is necessary to design the surgical incision of the chest according to the degree of ptosis to remove excess skin and achieve better therapeutic effect. At the same time, patients with large nipple and areola need to reduce nipple and areola after operation to achieve normal male chest appearance.