Study design We conducted a European multicentre prospective cohort study recruiting consecutive liver transplant recipients from 19 secondary and tertiary (with more than 100 patients in regular follow-up) liver transplant centres across Europe. The coordinating centre was the Inselspital, University Hospital of Berne (KEK Approval Project ID 2020-00682). Written informed consent was obtained from all the included patients. The recruitment was conducted from 10 March to 10 May 2020.