About the Authors

Sameer A. Dhayat

sameer.dhayat@ukmuenster.de

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Anna Hüsing

Affiliation Department of Transplant Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Norbert Senninger

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Hartmut H. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Transplant Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Jörg Haier

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center Muenster, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Heiner Wolters

Contributed equally to this work with: Heiner Wolters, Iyad Kabar

Affiliation Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Iyad Kabar

Contributed equally to this work with: Heiner Wolters, Iyad Kabar

Affiliation Department of Transplant Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAD IK. Performed the experiments: SAD AH IK. Analyzed the data: SAD JH IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAD AH NS HHS JH HW IK. Wrote the paper: SAD JH IK.