About the Authors
- Anja Stundl
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Hannah Lucht
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Jasmin Shamekhi
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Roles Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Marcel Weber
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Roles Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Alexander Sedaghat
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Roles Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Fritz Mellert
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Roles Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Eberhard Grube
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Roles Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Georg Nickenig
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Nikos Werner
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Jan-Malte Sinning
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jan-malte.sinning@ukbonn.de
Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Heart Center Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
Drs. Sinning, Grube, Nickenig, and Werner receive research grants and speaker honoraria from Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences, and Boston Scientific. Dr. Grube works as proctor for Medtronic and Boston Scientific. The other authors report no conflicts. Given the fact that the study was financed by a research grant from Boston Scientific, but neither Boston Scientific nor any other company had any additional role in the research or results in any manner, this commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.