Does anyone have any experience with liver transplants when the patient has lupus?

Does anyone have any experience with liver transplants when the patient has lupus?

A friend of mine is in end-stage liver failure due to cirrhosis. He is on a liver transplant list. He has lupus. How effective would a liver transplant actually be with the presence of lupus?

Answer
The doctors would not have put him on the list if there was no hope that it would work.

Lupus patients do get transplants sometimes, and do well.

The medication that prevents rejection also calms the lupus. I have not had a transplant but I take Cellcept, an anti rejection med, for lupus kidney disease. The Cellcept has not only allowed me to keep my kidneys, but reduced most of the other manifestations of lupus.

The point is, no one can predict the success of a transplant, with or without lupus. But the alternative is certain and that is death. With that knowledge, I would take the chance on the transplant.

Best wishes.