About the Authors

Claudia Schrimpf

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Schrimpf, Hans-Joerg Gillmann

Affiliation Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hans-Joerg Gillmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Schrimpf, Hans-Joerg Gillmann

Affiliation Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Bianca Sahlmann

Affiliation Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Antje Meinders

Affiliation Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jan Larmann

Affiliation Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Mathias Wilhelmi

Affiliation Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Aper

Affiliation Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Saad Rustum

Affiliation Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ralf Lichtinghagen

Affiliation Department for Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gregor Theilmeier

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Omke E. Teebken

teebken.omke@mh-hannover.de

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OET GT. Performed the experiments: CS HJG BS AM JL TA SR MW RL GT OET. Analyzed the data: CS HJG BS AM JL TA SR MW RL GT OET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS HJG BS RL GT OET. Wrote the paper: CS HJG BS AM JL TA SR MW RL GT OET. Acquired patients: CS HJG BS AM JL TA SR MW GT OET. Performed surgery: CS TA SR MW OET.