About the Authors

Jagdip Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jagdip Kang, Mateo Marin-Cuartas

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Mateo Marin-Cuartas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jagdip Kang, Mateo Marin-Cuartas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

mateomarinc@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Anna Flo Forner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Priya R. Menon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

André Ginther

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Diyar Saaed

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Suzanne de Waha

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Massimiliano Meineri

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Jörg Ender

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Michael A. Borger

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Michael A. Borger discloses that his hospital receives speakers’ honoraria and/or consulting fees on his behalf from Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, Abbott and CryoLife. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest or financial relationships with the industry to disclose. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.