About the Authors

Irina Soltau

Contributed equally to this work with: Irina Soltau, Eileen Mudersbach

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular Medicine, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Eileen Mudersbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Irina Soltau, Eileen Mudersbach

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Markus Geissen

m.geissen@uke.de

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular Medicine, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Edzard Schwedhelm

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Martin S. Winkler

Affiliation Center for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Maria Geffken

Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sven Peine

Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Gerhard Schoen

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

E. Sebastian Debus

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular Medicine, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Axel Larena-Avellaneda

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular Medicine, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Guenter Daum

Affiliation Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular Medicine, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ES SP MW ESD ALA GD. Data curation: ALA GD. Formal analysis: IS EM GS ALA GD. Investigation: IS EM M. Geissen M. Geffken GS. Methodology: EM ES GS. Project administration: ESD ALA GD. Resources: IS M. Geffken SP ALA ESD. Supervision: ESD ALA GD. Validation: ALA GD. Writing – original draft: IS EM M. Geissen ES M. Geffken SP GS GD. Writing – review & editing: MW ESD ALA GD.