About the Authors

Stefano Di Santo

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefano Di Santo, Zijiang Yang

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Zijiang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefano Di Santo, Zijiang Yang

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jan Voelzmann

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Nicolas Diehm

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Iris Baumgartner

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Christoph Kalka

vascmed.unibe@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDS ZY IB CK. Performed the experiments: SDS ZY. Analyzed the data: SDS ZY MWvB ND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JV. Wrote the paper: SDS ZY MWvB CK.