About the Authors

Ting-Yu Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Yu Lin, Yu-Lun Lo

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Lun Lo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Yu Lin, Yu-Lun Lo

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Hsing Hsieh

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yung-Lun Ni

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsai-Yu Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Horng-Chyuan Lin

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Hua Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Teng Yu

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Han-Pin Kuo

q8828@ms11.hinet.net

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TYL YLL. Performed the experiments: TYL YLL CHH YLN TYW. Analyzed the data: TYL YLL HPK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCL CHW CTY. Wrote the paper: TYL.