About the Authors

Kitty G. Snoek

k.snoek@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation Intensive Care and Department of Paediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center- Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Irwin K. M. Reiss

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Erasmus Medical Center- Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Jeroen Tibboel

Affiliation Intensive Care and Department of Paediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center- Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Joost van Rosmalen

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Irma Capolupo

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Neonatology, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

Arno van Heijst

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Thomas Schaible

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Martin Post

Affiliation Program of Physiology and Experimental Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Dick Tibboel

Affiliation Intensive Care and Department of Paediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center- Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IKMR MP DT. Performed the experiments: KGS IKMR IC AvH TS MP DT. Analyzed the data: KGS JvR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IKMR IC AvH TS MP DT. Wrote the paper: KGS IKMR JT JvR IC AvH TS MP DT.