# Moritz Litten

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'''Moritz Litten''' (August 10, 1845 – May 31, 1907) was a German physician who was a native of [Berlin](/source/Berlin). He was a son-in-law to [pathologist](/source/pathologist) [Ludwig Traube](/source/Ludwig_Traube_(physician)) (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](/source/University_of_Heidelberg), [Marburg](/source/University_of_Marburg) and [Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin), earning his medical doctorate in 1868. From 1872 to 1876 he worked at the Allerheiligen Hospital in [Breslau](/source/Breslau), and in the meantime, served as an assistant to [Julius Friedrich Cohnheim](/source/Julius_Friedrich_Cohnheim) (1839–1884). From 1876 to 1882 he worked in the clinic of [Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs](/source/Friedrich_Theodor_von_Frerichs) at Berlin-[Charité](/source/Charit%C3%A9). In 1884 he obtained the title of professor.

Litten is remembered for being the first physician to describe [vitreous](/source/Vitreous_humour) bleeding in correlation with [subarachnoid hemorrhage](/source/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](/source/ophthalmologist) Albert Terson noticed these symptoms in a patient, and the condition is now known as "[Terson's syndrome](/source/Terson's_syndrome)". 

In 1880, Litten documented one of the earliest known cases of a [paradoxical embolism](/source/paradoxical_embolism) in a patient undergoing [anaesthesia](/source/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](/source/Litten's_sign): ([Roth's spots](/source/Roth's_spots)) in [bacterial endocarditis](/source/bacterial_endocarditis).

== References==
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==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)

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