About the Authors

Mehran Haidari

Mehran.Haidari@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Leila Ganjehei

Affiliation Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Muzammil Ali

Affiliation Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhenping Chen

Affiliation Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH. Performed the experiments: WZ ZC LG MA. Analyzed the data: MH. Wrote the paper: MH.