A Reversible Case of Klüver-Bucy Syndrome in Association With Shigellosis

Abstract

The Klüver-Bucy syndrome is characterized by psychic blindness or visual agnosia, blunted affect, hypermetamorphosis, hyperorality, bulimia, and sexual behavioral alterations. To date, there have been fewer than 10 reported cases of Klüver-Bucy syndrome in children, most of them irreversible. We describe here a reversible case of the complete Klüver-Bucy syndrome in a child suffering from Shigella encephalopathy.

Klüver-Bucy syndrome in late delayed postirradiation encephalopathy

“…Klüver-Bucy syndrome has been rarely reported in human following bilateral temporal lesions secondary to a variety of neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular disease, cerebral trauma, temporal lobectomy, herpes encephalitis, postanoxic leucoencephalopathy, temporal lobe epilepsy, Pick's disease, arachnoid cysts, heat stroke, shigellosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and ceroid lipofuscinosis [1,2,[6][7][8][9][11][12][13][14][15]. Klüver-Bucy syndrome has been exceptionally described associated with postirradiation encephalopathy [4,16].…”