About the Authors

Lei Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Di Yu, Ran Mo, Jiru Zhang, Hu Hua

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Di Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Di Yu, Ran Mo, Jiru Zhang, Hu Hua

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ran Mo

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Di Yu, Ran Mo, Jiru Zhang, Hu Hua

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, the affiliated hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Jiru Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Di Yu, Ran Mo, Jiru Zhang, Hu Hua

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi No.4 People’s Hospital, Nanjing, China

Hu Hua

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Di Yu, Ran Mo, Jiru Zhang, Hu Hua

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Liang Hu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yu Feng

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Song Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wei-yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ning Yin

mohsuming15@sina.com (XMM); yinning882000@126.com (NY)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Xu-Ming Mo

mohsuming15@sina.com (XMM); yinning882000@126.com (NY)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XMM NY. Performed the experiments: LY DY RM JRZ HH. Analyzed the data: LH YF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW WYZ. Wrote the paper: LY DY.