About the Authors

Carsten J. Beller

Contributed equally to this work with: Carsten J. Beller, Mina Farag

carsten.beller@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Mina Farag

Contributed equally to this work with: Carsten J. Beller, Mina Farag

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sepali Wannaku

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Philipp Seppelt

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Rawa Arif

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Arjang Ruhparwar

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Karck

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Alexander Weymann

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Klaus Kallenbach

Affiliation Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB MF SW PS RA AR MK AW KK. Performed the experiments: CB MF SW PS RA AR MK AW KK. Analyzed the data: CB MF SW PS RA AR MK AW KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB MF SW PS RA AR MK AW KK. Wrote the paper: CB MF SW PS RA AR MK AW KK.