Bracht–Wachter bodies
# 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.

## Related findings

Other findings in infective endocarditis are:

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