About the Authors

Ingo Staudacher

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Julian Jehle

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Kathrin Staudacher

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Werner Pledl

Affiliations Department of Neurooncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Dieter Lemke

Affiliations Department of Neurooncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Patrick A. Schweizer

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Rüdiger Becker

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hugo A. Katus

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Dierk Thomas

dierk.thomas@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS JJ KS DT. Performed the experiments: IS JJ KS DT. Analyzed the data: IS JJ KS PAS DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HWP DL. Wrote the paper: IS HWP DL PAS RB HAK DT.