Knechtle, Beat http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2412-9103
Thuany, Mabliny http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-1871
Valero, David http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4133-4843
Villiger, Elias http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-1390
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-7122
Cuk, Ivan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-4384
Rosemann, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-6306
Weiss, Katja http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-6754
Article History
Received: 3 May 2024
Accepted: 2 September 2024
First Online: 8 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland, with a waiver of the requirement for informed consent of the participants as the study involved the analysis of publicly available data (EKSG 01/06/2010). The study was conducted in accordance with recognized ethical standards according to the Declaration of Helsinki adopted in 1964 and revised in 2013.