Zeimpekis, Konstantinos G. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2769-7533
Kulgawczuk, Magdalena
Bregenzer, Carola https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3755-4807
Schindewolf, Marc
Sachpekidis, Christos https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8739-8741
Sari, Hasan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1504-1767
Pandya, Kalyani
Afshar-Oromieh, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4492-4243
Rominger, Axel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1954-736X
Shi, Kuangyu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8714-3084
Seifert, Robert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6349-4007
Article History
Received: 8 December 2025
Accepted: 26 May 2026
First Online: 12 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee. The institutional review board of the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital approved the retrospective analysis, and all subjects signed a written informed general consent form. Informed written general consent was obtained from all patients.
Consent for publication: All authors have reviewed the final version of the manuscript and approved it for submission to your journal.
Competing interests: Author Hasan Sari has part-time employment with Siemens Healthineers International AG, Switzerland. Robert Seifert has received a travel grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Funds and a research grant from Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, as well as travel support and speaker honoraria from Novartis and Boston Scientific, outside the submitted work. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.