About the Authors

Wolfram Burkhardt

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfram Burkhardt, Stephan Kraft

Affiliation Department for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Klinik für Kinderheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Medizinische Fakultät der Technischen Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Stephan Kraft

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfram Burkhardt, Stephan Kraft

Affiliation Department for Pediatric Surgery, Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen, Trier, Germany

Matthias Ochs

Affiliation Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hans Proquitté

Affiliation Clinic for Neonatology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Lars Mense

Affiliation Department for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Klinik für Kinderheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Medizinische Fakultät der Technischen Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Mario Rüdiger

mario.ruediger@uniklinikum-dresden.de

Affiliation Department for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Klinik für Kinderheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Medizinische Fakultät der Technischen Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WB MR HP SK. Performed the experiments: WB SK. Analyzed the data: WB SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO HP. Wrote the paper: WB SK LM MR.