About the Authors
- Joerg Latus
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Contributed equally to this work with: Joerg Latus, Sayed M. Habib
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Sayed M. Habib
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Contributed equally to this work with: Joerg Latus, Sayed M. Habib
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Daniel Kitterer
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Mario R. Korte
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
- Christoph Ulmer
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Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Trauma Surgery, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Peter Fritz
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Division of Pathology, Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Simon Davies
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Affiliation Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom
- Mark Lambie
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
- M. Dominik Alscher
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- Michiel G. H. Betjes
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¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Stephan Segerer
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¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
- Niko Braun
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* E-mail: Niko.braun@rbk.de
¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
- on behalf of the European EPS study group
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¶‡ Membership of the European EPS study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The EPS-study group is supported by Baxter. Baxter did not fund this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JL SS MB DK NB MDA PF. Performed the experiments: JL SS MB DK NB MDA PF CU SMH. Analyzed the data: JL SS MB DK NB MDA PF CU MK SD ML SMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL SS MB DK NB MDA PF CU MK SD ML SMH. Wrote the paper: JL SS MB DK NB MDA PF CU MK SD ML SMH.