About the Authors

Johannes Gollmer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

David Zweiker

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 3rd Medical Department for Cardiology and Intensive Care, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria

Alexander Peikert

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Viktoria Santner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Ivan Vosko

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Nicolas Verheyen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Klemens Ablasser

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Ewald Kolesnik

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Nora Schwegel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Birgit Zirngast

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Wolfgang Marte

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Günther Laufer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Daniel Zimpfer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Martin Andreas

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Eva Buschmann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Gabor G. Toth

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Heiko Bugger

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Andreas Zirlik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

andreas.zirlik@medunigraz.at

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Albrecht Schmidt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. None of the authors are employed by or affiliated with commercial organizations. No commercial entities had any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.