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.

Heart murmur	Systolic heart murmur: Benign paediatric heart murmur (Still's murmur) Diastolic heart murmur: Pulmonic regurgitation (Graham Steell murmur) Aortic insufficiency (Austin Flint murmur) Carey Coombs murmur Mitral regurgitation (Presystolic murmur)

Aortic insufficiency	Watson's water hammer pulse/Corrigan pulse De Musset's sign Duroziez's sign Müller's sign Quincke'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 (Osborn wave) angina pectoris (Levine's sign) Gallavardin phenomenon

Arterial	aortic aneurysm (Cardarelli's sign, Oliver's sign) pulmonary embolism (McConnell's sign) radial artery sufficiency (Allen's test) pseudohypertension (Osler's sign) thrombus (Lines of Zahn) Adson's sign arteriovenous fistula (Nicoladoni sign)

Venous	Friedreich's sign Caput medusae Kussmaul's sign DVT Bancroft's sign Homans sign Lisker's sign Louvel's sign Lowenberg's sign Peabody's sign Pratt's sign Rose's sign Trendelenburg test superior vena cava syndrome (Pemberton's sign)

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