Bracht–Wachter bodies explained

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^[1] 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.^[2]

Related findings

Other findings in infective endocarditis are:

• Osler's nodes
• Janeway lesions
• Roth's spots
• Flea-bitten kidneys- pyemic spots

Notes and References

1. Web site: Definition: Bracht-Wachter lesion from Online Medical Dictionary . 2008-12-22.
2. Bracht, E., and Wachter: Beitrage zur Aetiologie und pathologischen Anatomic der Myocarditis rheumatica, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., Leipz., 1909, xcvi, 493.