About the Authors

Ruslan Natanov

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Faikah Gueler

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Christine S. Falk

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Transplant Immunology, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Christian Kühn

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Ulrich Maus

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Erin C. Boyle

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Thierry Siemeni

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Ann-Katrin Knoefel

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Serghei Cebotari

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Axel Haverich

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Nodir Madrahimov

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

madrahimov.nodir@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.