Congenital stricture of male urethra.

Seven cases of anterior urethral stricture were studied. The diagnosis was made by exclusion of the inflammatory and traumatic causes. In three cases the stricture was located in the bulbar and in four cases in the penile urethra. The results obtained were good, with a follow-up of 5 to 50 months. Considerations are made about embryogenic, diagnostic, clinical picture and treatment. The verification of extensive lesions of the urethra determined the use of more complex surgical techniques of Johansen's urethroplasty devised for the treatment of this kind of pathology.

Vesicoureteral reflux in patients in end-stage chronic renal failure.

Vesicoureteral reflux was observed in 19 of 180 patients (10.5%) with end-stage chronic renal failure. The underlying disease in the patients with reflux was chronic glomerulonephritis in 8.3%, chronic pyelonephritis in 28.5% and renal hypoplasia in 40%. Reflux was bilateral in 13 patients and unilateral in six. Most likely bladder dysfunction due to uremia may have been the cause of the reflux.