Bracht–Wachter bodies

Bracht–Wachter bodies are a finding in infective endocarditis^[1] consisting of yellow-white miliary spots in the myocardium.

Histologically, these are collections of chronic inflammatory cells, mainly lymphocytes^[2] 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.^[3]

Other findings in infective endocarditis are:

^ "Bracht-Wächter bodies" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
^ "Definition: Bracht-Wachter lesion from Online Medical Dictionary". Retrieved 2008-12-22.
^ Bracht, E., and Wachter: Beitrage zur Aetiologie und pathologischen Anatomic der Myocarditis rheumatica, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., Leipz., 1909, xcvi, 493.

Signs and symptoms relating to the circulatory system

Chest pain

Auscultation

Other

Shock

Aortic insufficiency	Collapsing pulse De Musset's sign Duroziez's sign Müller's sign Austin Flint murmur Mayne's sign
Other endocardium	endocarditis: Roth's spot Janeway lesion/Osler's node Bracht–Wachter bodies
Pericardium	Cardiac tamponade/Pericardial effusion: Beck's triad Ewart's sign
Other	rheumatic fever: Anitschkow cell Aschoff body EKG J wave Gallavardin phenomenon

Arterial	aortic aneurysm Cardarelli's sign Oliver's sign pulmonary embolism Right heart strain radial artery sufficiency Allen's test pseudohypertension thrombus Lines of Zahn Adson's sign arteriovenous fistula Nicoladoni–Branham sign
Venous	Friedreich's sign Caput medusae Kussmaul's sign Trendelenburg test superior vena cava syndrome Pemberton's sign