Well-wishers included Medical Director Priv.-Doz. Dr. Karl-Heinz Stadlbauer along with a number of colleagues at the Kepler University Hospital, and family members. Wolfgang Senker, a senior physician at the Department of Neurosurgery at Kepler University Hospital, wrote a postdoctoral dissertation titled "Peri- und postoperative Morbidität und Komplikationsrate nach minimalinvasiven Fusionsoperationen der degenerativen Lendenwirbelsäule bei wirbelsäulenchirurgischen Risikopatient*innen".

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