Sibbertsen, Freya
Song, Zheng
Ly, Cedric
Sandrock, Inga
Bonn, Stefan
Koenecke, Christian
Tan, Likai
Schultze-Florey, Christian
Prinz, Immo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8789-9578
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Article History
Received: 10 April 2026
Revised: 26 June 2026
Accepted: 13 July 2026
First Online: 20 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval: The study was performed (in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki) and approved by the institutional review board at Hannover Medical School (#1303–2012, #2032–2013, #2604–2014, and #2604–2015), and written informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Clinical trial number: Not applicable.
Competing interest: The authors declare no competing interests.