About the Authors

Marcus R. Streit

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus R. Streit, Celine S. Weiss

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Spinal Cord Injury, Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany

Celine S. Weiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus R. Streit, Celine S. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Sören Meyer

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Marco M. Ochs

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Marco Hagenmueller

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Johannes H. Riffel

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Sebastian J. Buss

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Heger

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Hugo A. Katus

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan E. Hardt

stefanhardt@outlook.com

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Cardiac and Circulatory Diseases, Hoheneggerstr. 9, 76646 Bruchsal, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEH CSW MRS MO MH JHR SJB HAK TH. Performed the experiments: MRS CSW SM MO MH JHR SJB TH SEH. Analyzed the data: CSW MRS SM HAK SEH MO SJB JHR HAK TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSW MRS MO MH JHR SJB TH HAK SEH. Wrote the paper: MRS CSW HAK SEH.