Organ Enlargement

🔬Causes & Risk Factors

• 1Organ enlargement can result from a wide range of underlying processes including infections
• 2chronic inflammation
• 3autoimmune disease
• 4congestion from heart failure or blocked blood flow
• 5infiltration by cancer cells or abnormal storage of metabolic byproducts
• 6and benign or malignant tumours growing within the organ. The specific pattern of which organs are affected together often helps narrow down the cause
• 7such as combined liver and spleen enlargement suggesting a blood disorder or systemic infection. Chronic alcohol use
• 8viral hepatitis
• 9and certain genetic storage disorders are common contributors.