Miroslav Šašinka, Katarína Furková
Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is in children an important cause of the chronic kidney disease and end stage renal failure. In newborns is ARPKD connected with life threatening respiratory disturbances, in the following children age endangers the child’s life concomitant grave hit of the kidney and liver and consequences of these two important organs disturbances. Significant progress in genetics didn´t prove exactly made clear ARPKD pathogenesis, diagnostically are important findings of abdominal masses and imaging methods. Therapy of ARPKD has many perspective possibilities, its results are better in last time but so far didn´t reach turning break successes. In terminal phases proved to be useful simultaneous transplantation of the kidney and liver more than transplantation of only one from these organs