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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ² Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴ Member of the European Reference Network for rare, low prevalence and complex diseases of the heart (ERN GUARD-Heart).
• ⁵ Cardiovascular Institute, Thoraxcenter, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre, Groningen, The Netherlands.