About the Authors

Ammon Handisurya

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Corinna Kerscher

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andrea Tura

Affiliation Institute of Neurosciences, CNR, Padova, Italy

Harald Herkner

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Berit Anna Payer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Mattias Mandorfer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johannes Werzowa

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Winnicki

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Reiberger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Giovanni Pacini

Affiliation Institute of Neurosciences, CNR, Padova, Italy

Marcus Säemann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alice Schmidt

alice.schmidt@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH TR JW MS AS. Performed the experiments: AH CK BAP MM WW. Analyzed the data: AH AT HH GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT HH TR GP AKW. Wrote the paper: AH WW TR GP MS AS. Data interpretation: HH JW AKW. Statistical advice: HH.