About the Authors

Dicheng Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dicheng Yang, Jing Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Jing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Dicheng Yang, Jing Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Chest Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Zhongxiang Yuan

yuanzhongxiangno1@126.com (ZY); liuxu_2010@126.com (XL)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Xu Liu

yuanzhongxiangno1@126.com (ZY); liuxu_2010@126.com (XL)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Chest Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DY XL. Performed the experiments: DY JL. Analyzed the data: DY JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZY XL. Wrote the paper: DY JL.