BrachtâWachter 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.
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: