Bracht–Wachter bodies
Bracht–Wachter bodies are a finding in infective endocarditis consisting of yellow-white miliary spots in the myocardium.
Histologically, these are collections of chronic inflammatory cells, mainly lymphocytes and histiocytes.History
They were described by two Germans, Erich Franz Eugen Bracht, a pathologist and obstetrician-gynecologist, and Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter, a physician.Other findings in infective endocarditis are:
- Osler's nodes
- Janeway lesions
- Roth's spots
- Flea-bitten kidneys- pyemic spots
