About the Authors

Brittany Balint

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

Brittany.Balint@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Inés García Lascurain Bernstorff

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Tanja Schwab

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.