About the Authors

Gábor Veres

gaborveres@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Péter Hegedűs

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Heart Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Enikő Barnucz

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Raphael Zöller

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Stephanie Klein

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Harald Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Tamás Radovits

Affiliation Heart Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Sevil Korkmaz

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Karck

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Gábor Szabó

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GV PH EB RZ S. Klein HS TR S. Korkmaz MK GS. Performed the experiments: GV PH EB RZ S. Klein HS TR S. Korkmaz GS. Analyzed the data: GV PH EB RZ S. Klein HS TR S. Korkmaz MK GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GV PH EB RZ S. Klein TR S. Korkmaz MK GS. Wrote the paper: GV PH TR S. Korkmaz MK GS.