About the Authors

Kenan Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenan Huang, Bin Wu, Xinyu Ding

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Bin Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenan Huang, Bin Wu, Xinyu Ding

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xinyu Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenan Huang, Bin Wu, Xinyu Ding

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhifei Xu

doctorxzf@163.com (ZX); lordth1982@163.com (HT)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Hua Tang

doctorxzf@163.com (ZX); lordth1982@163.com (HT)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX HT. Analyzed the data: KH XD. Wrote the paper: BW. Acquired data: KH XD. Revised manuscript critically for important intellectual content: BW..