About the Authors

Niklas Lofruthe

Contributed equally to this work with: Niklas Lofruthe, Inka Gallitz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Inka Gallitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Niklas Lofruthe, Inka Gallitz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Lisa Traeger

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Nicole Bäumer

Affiliation Department of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Isabell Schulze

Affiliation Department of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Tanja Kuhlmann

Affiliation Institute for Neuropathology, University Hospital Muenster, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Carsten Müller-Tidow

Current address: Department of Medicine IV, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Halle, Halle, Germany

Affiliation Department of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Andrea U. Steinbicker

andrea.steinbicker@ukmuenster.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AUS. Performed the experiments: NL IG LT NB IS TK AUS. Analyzed the data: NL IG LT NB IS AUS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK CMT. Wrote the paper: NL IG AUS.