Medicine:Bracht–Wachter bodies
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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]
Related findings
Other findings in infective endocarditis are:
- Osler's nodes
- Janeway lesions
- Roth's spots
- Flea-bitten kidneys- pyemic spots
References
- ↑ "Bracht-Wächter bodies" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ↑ "Definition: Bracht-Wachter lesion from Online Medical Dictionary". http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Bracht-Wachter+lesion.
- ↑ Bracht, E., and Wachter: Beitrage zur Aetiologie und pathologischen Anatomic der Myocarditis rheumatica, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., Leipz., 1909, xcvi, 493.
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