title: Bracht–Wachter bodies
text: # 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
  