Organ Enlargement

Something in you is growing beyond measure. An organ, a muscle, a tissue — what should have a certain size is expanding, thickening, taking up more space than intended. Medicine calls this hypertrophy: an enlargement through an increase in cell volume. Not more cells — but larger ones. The organ becomes stronger, more powerful, more massive. And often this is not initially a disease, but an adaptation.

A heart that pumps continuously against high pressure grows thicker. A muscle that is loaded extremely every day grows. A prostate, a thyroid, a liver — every tissue that is demanded far beyond its normal measure for a long time eventually responds with the same solution: more of it. More substance, more mass, more force. Until this answer itself becomes the problem.