About the Authors

Christoph Roderburg

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Roderburg, Mark Luedde

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Mark Luedde

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Roderburg, Mark Luedde

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

David Vargas Cardenas

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Mihael Vucur

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

David Scholten

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Norbert Frey

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Alexander Koch

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Christian Trautwein

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Frank Tacke

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Tom Luedde

tluedde@ukaachen.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR ML NF AK CT FT TL. Performed the experiments: CR ML DVC MV DS. Analyzed the data: CR ML AK CT FT TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK FT CT. Wrote the paper: CR ML AK CT FT TL.