About the Authors

Rudolf Spunda

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation 2nd Department of Surgery - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic

Jan Hruby

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation 2nd Department of Surgery - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic

Pavel Mericka

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Tissue Bank, Faculty Hospital Hradec Kralove, Charles University- Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Mikulas Mlcek

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague

Ondrej Pecha

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Kathrin Splith

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Moritz Schmelzle

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Felix Krenzien

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jaroslav Lindner

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation 2nd Department of Surgery - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic

Ivan Matia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ Ivan Matia and Miroslav Spacek are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Hospital Hietzing and Karl Landsteiner Institute for Cardio-Vascular Research, Vienna, Austria

Miroslav Spacek

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mirekspacek@seznam.cz

‡ Ivan Matia and Miroslav Spacek are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation 2nd Department of Surgery - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.