Bracht-Wachter bodies are a finding in infective endocarditis

Infective endocarditis

Infective endocarditis is a form of endocarditis, or inflammation, of the inner tissue of the heart, such as its valves, caused by infectious agents. The agents are usually bacterial, but other organisms can also be responsible....

 consisting of yellow-white miliary spots in the myocardium.

Histologically

Histopathology

Histopathology refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease...

, these are collections of chronic inflammatory cells, mainly lymphocytes and histiocytes.

History

They were described by two Germans, Erich Franz Eugen Bracht

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht was a German pathologist and gynaecologist who was a native of Berlin.After earning his doctorate, for several years he assisted pathologist Ludwig Aschoff in Freiburg...

, a pathologist and obstetrician-gynecologist, and Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter

Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter

Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter was a German physician remembered for describing Bracht-Wachter bodies in infective endocarditis.- References :...

, a physician.

Related findings

Other findings in infective endocarditis are:

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