About the Authors

Pascal Hunold

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Berg

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Pneumology, Division of Hepatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Daniel Seehofer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Robert Sucher

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Adam Herber

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Pneumology, Division of Hepatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Berend Isermann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Joachim Thiery

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thorsten Kaiser

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

thorsten.kaiser@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.