About the Authors

Dan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Kai Hu, Markus Niemann

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Kai Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Kai Hu, Markus Niemann

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Markus Niemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Kai Hu, Markus Niemann

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Sebastian Herrmann

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Maja Cikes

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb and University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Stefan Störk

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Meinrad Beer

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Philipp Daniel Gaudron

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Caroline Morbach

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Stefan Knop

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Eva Geissinger

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Georg Ertl

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Bart Bijnens

Affiliations ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Frank Weidemann

Weidemann_F@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the study: FW BB. Collected and analyzed the data: DL KH MN MC SH PDG CM. Contributed statistical analysis: DL KH SS. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: FW BB SS SK MN MB GE. Contributed pathological diagnosis and analysis: EG. Contributed diagnosis and analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: MB. Wrote the paper: DL KH.