[Bladder augmentation and urinary diversion in kidney transplant candidates].

Objectives: Kidney transplantation (KT) is the treatment of choice for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). 6% of the patients develop ESRD due to congenital or acquired lower urinary tract anomalies, which sometimes imply the need of an additional surgical procedure to make the patient suitable for transplantation.

Methods: We review 6 cases of KT receptors (three of them pediatric) to whom some kind of reconstruction of the lower urinary tract with bowel was performed over the last 10 years.

[Glands necrosis caused by necrotizing granulomatous arteritis].

Objective: To report a case of necrosis of the glans penis caused by necrotizing granulomatous arteritis, an uncommon form of presentation of this vasculitis that basically affects the upper and lower respiratory tracts and glomerulus. Furthermore, it produces ocular inflammatory lesions and in 50% of the cases skin lesions. The mean age at presentation is around 40 years and affects both males and females in the same proportion.