About the Authors

Hazem El Beyrouti

Contributed equally to this work with: Hazem El Beyrouti, Mario Lescan

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

hbeyrouti@gmail.com

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

Mario Lescan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hazem El Beyrouti, Mario Lescan

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

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Marco Doemland

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Migdat Mustafi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Florian Jungmann

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Tobias Jorg

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Nancy Halloum

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Bernhard Dorweiler

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.