About the Authors
- Dan Liu
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Maja Cikes
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Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb and University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
- Stefan Störk
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Meinrad Beer
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Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Philipp Daniel Gaudron
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Caroline Morbach
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Stefan Knop
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Eva Geissinger
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Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Georg Ertl
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Bart Bijnens
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Affiliations ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Frank Weidemann
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* E-mail: 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.