About the Authors

Natascha Troester

natascha.troester@klinikum-graz.at

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Michael Palfner

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Markus Dominco

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Christoph Wohlkoenig

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Erich Schmidberger

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Martin Trinker

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Alexander Avian

Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NT MP AA. Data curation: NT AA ES MD. Formal analysis: NT AA ES MD. Investigation: NT MP CW MT. Methodology: NT MP AA. Project administration: NT MP. Resources: NT AA ES. Software: NT AA ES MD. Supervision: NT MP CW MT AA. Validation: NT AA MP MT. Visualization: NT AA MP. Writing – original draft: NT AA MP. Writing – review & editing: NT AA MP CW MT.