Signs and symptoms
Symptoms for Alström syndrome generally appear during infancy with great variability in age. Some of the symptoms include:
Heart failure (dilated cardiomyopathy) in over 60% of cases, usually within the first few weeks after birth, but sometimes the onset is in adolescence or adulthood. Light sensitivity and vision problems (cone-rod dystrophy) in all cases, usually within 15 months of birth and progressively worsening until about 20 years of age
Delays in early, developmental milestones in 50% of cases, learning disabilities in about 30% of cases
Obesity in 100% of cases, apparent by 5 years of age but often apparent in infancy (Alström infants usually have normal birth weights, and by adolescence, weights tend to be in the high-normal to normal range.) Nystagmus (usually affects the children), one of the first symptoms to occur which causes involuntary rapid eye movement. Mild to moderate bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Type 2 diabetes usually occurs in early childhood. Hyperinsulinemia/insulin resistance—development of high level of insulin in blood. Hypertriglyceridemia
Steatosis (fatty liver) and elevated transaminases (liver enzymes) often develop in childhood and can progress in some patients to cirrhosis and liver failure. Endocrine dysfunctions may occur where the patient may experience an under or over active thyroid gland, weak growth hormone, increased androgen in females and low testosterone in males. Slowly progressive kidney failure can occur in the second to fourth decade of life. Cause
Alström syndrome is caused by a mutation in the ALMS1 gene, located on the short arm of chromosome 2 (2p13.2).
Antiquity
Aristotle used the word frequently in his philosophy, both to describe the organs of plants or animals (e.g. the roots of a tree, the heart or liver of an animal), and to describe more abstract "parts" of an interconnected whole (e.g. his logical works, taken as a whole, are referred to as the Organon).Some alchemists (e.g. Paracelsus) adopted the Hermetic Qabalah assignment between the seven vital organs and the seven classical planets as follows:

See also
Organoid
Organ-on-a-chip

References
External links
 Media related to Organs (anatomy) at Wikimedia Commons