Background: Klüver-Bucy syndrome is a rare and complex neurobehavioral cluster that occurs in humans and results from a temporal lobe lesion. It can be associated with a variety of causes. Stroke is a rarely reported cause of this syndrome.
Case presentation: In this report, we present the case of a 68-year-old Saudi male who developed Klüver-Bucy syndrome subsequent to a nondominant middle cerebral artery ischemic stroke involving right temporal lobe. The patient manifested most of the Klüver-Bucy syndrome clinical features, including hypersexuality, hyperphagia, hyperorality, and visual hypermetamorphosis (excessive tendency to react to every visual stimulation with a tendency to touch every such stimulus). These neurobehavioral manifestations improved after he was started on treatment.
Conclusions: The clinical course, anatomical association relying on pathophysiology, and potential treatment have all been deliberated in regard to the rare occurrence of Klüver-Bucy syndrome resulting from temporal lobe pathology.
Keywords: Case report; Ischemic stroke; Klüver–Bucy syndrome; Neurobehavioral symptoms; Stroke; Temporal lobe damage.
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