About the Authors

Zuhaib Ibrahim

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gigi Ebenezer

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joani M. Christensen

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Karim A. Sarhane

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Hauer

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Damon S. Cooney

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Justin M. Sacks

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Stefan Schneeberger

Affiliations Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Center of Operative Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

W. P. Andrew Lee

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Polydefkis

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Polydefkis, Gerald Brandacher

brandacher@jhmi.edu (GD); mpolyde@jhmi.edu (MP)

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gerald Brandacher

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Polydefkis, Gerald Brandacher

brandacher@jhmi.edu (GD); mpolyde@jhmi.edu (MP)

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZI WPAL MP GB. Performed the experiments: SS DSC GJE KAS JC PH JMS. Analyzed the data: GJE MP ZI JMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PH GJE. Wrote the manuscript: ZI GB MP WPAL GJE.