About the Authors

Marc Dorenkamp

marc.dorenkamp@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Andreas J. Morguet

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Sticherling

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Steffen Behrens

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Vivantes Humboldt-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Markus Zabel

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Heart Center, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and final approval of the manuscript: MD AJM CS SB MZ. Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MZ. Performed the experiments: CS SB MZ. Analyzed the data: MD AJM CS SB MZ. Wrote the paper: MD AJM MZ.