About the Authors

Patrick Sulzgruber

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Lorenz Koller

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Reiberger

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Feras El-Hamid

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Stefan Forster

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

David-Jonas Rothgerber

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Georg Goliasch

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johann Wojta

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alexander Niessner

alexander.niessner@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS LK AN GG. Performed the experiments: PS LK FE SF DR. Analyzed the data: PS LK AN TR GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: PS AN.