Moritz Litten

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Moritz Litten (1845-1907) was a German physician who practiced medicine in Berlin. He was a son-in-law to pathologist Ludwig Traube (1818-1876).

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 M. Uber einige vom allgemein-klinischen Standpunkt aus interessante Augenveranerungen. 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.[1]

Associated eponym:

• Litten's sign: (Roth's spots) in bacterial endocarditis.

[edit] External Site:

• eMedicine article on Terson's syndrome