Surgery Leaves Woman with 'Temporary
Kleptomania'
February
12, 2016 11:20am ET A woman in Brazil who had cosmetic surgery ended up with
not only a flatter stomach and larger breasts, she also developed kleptomania
for a few weeks, a new case report reveals. A few days after being released from the hospital following
her cosmetic surgery, the 40-year-old woman began to have "recurring,
intrusive thoughts and an irresistible compulsion towards stealing," according to
the case report, published online Jan. 29 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
The most likely explanation for her symptoms is that the
woman suffered from inadequate blood flow to the brain at some point during or
right after the surgical procedure, said case report co-author Dr. Fabio
Nascimento, who is currently a neurologist at Toronto Western Hospital in
Canada, but who was part of the medical team during the woman's hospitalization
in Brazil at the time of the case.
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