About the Authors

Ghaleb Khirfan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

khirfag@ccf.org

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Tawfeq Naal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathobiology Department, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Batool Abuhalimeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathobiology Department, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Jennie Newman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathobiology Department, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Gustavo A. Heresi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Raed A. Dweik

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Adriano R. Tonelli

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist except for Gustavo A. Heresi, who received personal fees for being a member in Bayer Healthcare – Advisory Board and Speaking. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.