About the Authors

Nermin Serbecic

Contributed equally to this work with: Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Fahmy Aboul-Enein

Contributed equally to this work with: Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein

fahmy.aboul-enein@telering.at

Affiliation Department of Neurology, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Vienna, Austria

Sven C. Beutelspacher

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Clemens Vass

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Kristoferitsch

Affiliation Department of Neurology, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Vienna, Austria

Hans Lassmann

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Andreas Reitner

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS FA-E. Performed the experiments: NS FA-E SCB. Analyzed the data: NS FA-E SCB CV WK HL AR US-E. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS FA-E SCB WK CV US-E. Wrote the paper: NS FA-E WK HL.