About the Authors

Simon Schimmack

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Sarah Kneller

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Nigora Dadabaeva

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Frank Bergmann

Affiliation Institute of Pathology Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 224, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Andrew Taylor

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Thilo Hackert

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Jens Werner

Affiliations Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, University Hospital of General, Visceral, Transplantation, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery of Munich, Campus Großhadern, Marchioninistraße 15, 81377 Munich, Germany

Oliver Strobel

oliver.strobel@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OS JW SK. Formal analysis: SS SK TH OS. Funding acquisition: SS OS. Investigation: SK ND FB SS. Methodology: SK ND FB OS. Project administration: JW OS. Resources: TH JW OS. Supervision: TH JW OS. Validation: SS OS. Visualization: SS AT. Writing – original draft: SS AT OS.