About the Authors

Shanmuganathan Limalanathan

lisq@uus.no

Affiliations Department of Cardiology Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Norway

Jan Eritsland

Affiliations Department of Cardiology Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Norway

Geir Øystein Andersen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Norway, Center for Clinical Heart Research University of Oslo, Norway

Nils-Einar Kløw

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Michael Abdelnoor

Affiliation Center for Clinical Research, Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Pavel Hoffmann

Affiliations Department of Cardiology Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

All authors have read and approved the manuscript and the full disclosure of any relationship with industry. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL PH JE GØA. Performed the experiments: SL PH JE. Analyzed the data: SL PH JE MA GØA NEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL PH. Wrote the paper: SL JE GØA MA NEK PH.