Moritz Litten

right|thumb|Moritz Litten '''Moritz Litten''' (August 10, 1845 – May 31, 1907) was a German physician who was a native of Berlin. He was a son-in-law to pathologist Ludwig Traube (1818–1876).<ref name=Yale2021>{{cite book |last1=Yale |first1=Steven H. |last2=Tekiner |first2=Halil |last3=Mazza |first3=Joseph J. |last4=Yale |first4=Eileen S. |last5=Yale |first5=Ryan C. |title=Cardiovascular Eponymic Signs: Diagnostic Skills Applied During the Physical Examination |date=2021 |publisher=Springer |location=Switzerland |isbn=978-3-030-67595-0 |chapter=3. Endocarditis|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJQoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 |language=en|pages=78–82}}</ref>

== Biography == He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, earning his medical doctorate in 1868. From 1872 to 1876 he worked at the Allerheiligen Hospital in Breslau, and in the meantime, served as an assistant to Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884). From 1876 to 1882 he worked in the clinic of Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs at Berlin-Charité. In 1884 he obtained the title of professor.

Litten is remembered for being the first physician to describe vitreous bleeding in correlation with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In 1881 he published his findings in ''Ueber einige vom allgemein-klinischen Standpunkt aus interessante Augenveränderungen'' (Berl Klin Wochenschr 18: 23– 27). Several years later, French ophthalmologist Albert Terson noticed these symptoms in a patient, and the condition is now known as "Terson's syndrome".

In 1880, Litten documented one of the earliest known cases of a paradoxical embolism in a patient undergoing anaesthesia.<ref>{{cite journal | pmid=8256459 | date=1993 | last1=Lippmann | first1=H. | last2=Rafferty | first2=T. | title=Patent foramen ovale and paradoxical embolization: A historical perspective | journal=The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine | volume=66 | issue=1 | pages=11–17 | pmc=2588833 }}</ref>

== Associated eponym == * Litten's sign: (Roth's spots) in bacterial endocarditis.

== References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Litten,%2BMoritz&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Litten,%2BMoritz%2522%2BZeno%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Zeno.org] (translated biography)

{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Litten, Moritz}} Category:1845 births Category:1907 deaths Category:Medical doctors from the Kingdom of Prussia Category:19th-century German medical doctors Category:Medical doctors from Berlin