Wolf, Joachim
Safer, Anton
Stefenelli, Ulrich
Woehrle, Johannes C.
Maschke, Matthias
Nix, Wilfred A.
Grau, Armin J.
Article History
Received: 29 May 2026
Accepted: 21 August 2026
First Online: 27 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was performed in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.Approval was granted by the local ethics committee (Ethics committee of the State Medical Association of Rhineland-Palatinate, registration number 837.253.09), and by the data protection commissioner of Rhineland-Palatinate. According to legal requirements, patients could be registered at the data-holding centre (Department of Neurology, Klinikum Ludwigshafen), including personal data, if written informed consent signed by patient or the legal representative was available. In the absence of written informed consent, a basic data set (demographic and phenotypic data) was generated with the use of a pseudonymisation code to avoid double registration.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.