About the Authors
- Zisis Dimitriadis
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: akleemeyer@hdz-nrw.de
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Werner Scholtz
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Stephan M. Ensminger
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Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Cornelia Piper
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Roles Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Thomas Bitter
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Marcus Wiemer
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johannes-Wesling-Klinikum Minden, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Minden, Germany
- Marios Vlachojannis
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Roles Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Jochen Börgermann
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Lothar Faber
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Dieter Horstkotte
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Jan Gummert
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Smita Scholtz
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Competing Interests
Zisis Dimitriadis, Marcus Wiemer, Cornelia Piper, Thomas Bitter, Marios Vlachojannis, Dieter Horstkotte, Lothar Faber declare that they have no conflict of interest. Smita Scholtz and Werner Scholtz have received honoraria for lectures from Medtronic and Direct Flow Medical and for proctor activities from Direct Flow Medical. Jochen Börgermann has received horonaria for lectures from Edwards, Maquet, Medtronic and Symetis and for proctor activities from Medtronic Stephan Ensminger is proctor and consultant for Edwards Lifesciences™, proctor and member of the SAB of JenaValve™, received speaker honoraria from Edwards Lifesciences™ and Symetis™, received travel compensation from Edwards Lifesciences™, JenaValve™ and Symetis™. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.