About the Authors

Ben Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ben Zhang, Xiang Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, Centre of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, Guangzhou, China

Xiang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ben Zhang, Xiang Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Tong-yi Xu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhi-gang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xin Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lin Han

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhi-yun Xu

zhiyunxu168@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH ZX. Performed the experiments: BZ XC TX ZZ XL LH. Analyzed the data: BZ XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZX. Wrote the paper: BZ XC.