About the Authors

Nermin Serbecic

Contributed equally to this work with: Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Fahmy Aboul-Enein

Contributed equally to this work with: Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein

fahmy.aboul-enein@telering.at

Affiliation Department of Neurology, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Vienna, Austria

Sven C. Beutelspacher

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Martin Graf

Affiliation Department of Neurology, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Vienna, Austria

Karl Kircher

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Geitzenauer

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Werner Brannath

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Priska Lang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Kristoferitsch

Affiliation Department of Neurology, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Vienna, Austria

Hans Lassmann

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andreas Reitner

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS FAE MG WB WK AR. Performed the experiments: NS FAE SCB. Analyzed the data: NS FAE SCB MG WB PL WK HL AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS FAE SCB MG KK WG USE. Wrote the paper: NS FAE SCB WB WK HL.