About the Authors

Hazem El Beyrouti

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

hbeyrouti@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Daniel-Sebastian Dohle

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Mohammad Bashar Izzat

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria

Lena Brendel

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Philipp Pfeiffer

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Christian-Friedrich Vahl

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.