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Article History

Received: 16 April 2021

Revised: 4 August 2021

Accepted: 19 August 2021

First Online: 13 October 2021

Declarations

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is PD Dr. Christian Scheurig-Muenkler. Christian.schreurig@uk-augsburg.de

: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Dr. Schoepf has received institutional research support and/or honoraria for speaking and consulting from Astellas, Bayer, Bracco, Elucid BioImaging, General Electric, Guerbet, HeartFlow Inc., and Siemens Healthineers. Dr. Varga-Szemes has received institutional research support from Siemens Healthineers and honoraria from Bayer and Elucid BioImaging. Dr. Emrich has received travel support and speaker honoraria from Siemens Healthineers. All other authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: Written informed consent was not required for this study because we assessed already anonymized data (anonymized by the federal statistical office of Germany) that was additionally subjected to a secrecy check censoring subgroups with fewer than five individuals in order to maintain the anonymity of individual cases.

: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because we assessed already anonymized data (anonymized by the federal statistical office of Germany) that was additionally subjected to a secrecy check censoring subgroups with fewer than five individuals in order to maintain the anonymity of individual cases.

: • retrospective• cross-sectional study/observational• performed at one institution