About the Authors

Qing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Zhang, Xinguo Chen, Yunjin Zang, Li Zhang, Hong Chen

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Xinguo Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Zhang, Xinguo Chen, Yunjin Zang, Li Zhang, Hong Chen

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Yunjin Zang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Zhang, Xinguo Chen, Yunjin Zang, Li Zhang, Hong Chen

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Zhang, Xinguo Chen, Yunjin Zang, Li Zhang, Hong Chen

Affiliation First Department of Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial Corps Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Xi'an, China

Hong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Zhang, Xinguo Chen, Yunjin Zang, Li Zhang, Hong Chen

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Letian Wang

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Yujian Niu

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Xiuyun Ren

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Zhongyang Shen

zqy47@sina.com (ZS); shanglei@fmmu.edu.cn (LS)

Affiliation Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Beijing, China

Lei Shang

zqy47@sina.com (ZS); shanglei@fmmu.edu.cn (LS)

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Faculty of Preventive Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS QZ. Performed the experiments: QZ XC YZ LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC LW XR. Technical support: ZS LS XC YZ HC. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: ZS. Study supervision: ZS LZ LW. Drafting of the manuscript and revision of the manuscript for total content: QZ. Study design and statistical analysis: LS. Patient enrollment: XC YZ LZ. Follow up patients for data collection: YN. Data collection: XR.