About the Authors

Shelby Kutty

Affiliation Joint Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Nebraska College of Medicine/Creighton University, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Juefei Wu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

James M. Hammel

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Feng Xie

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Shunji Gao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Lucas K. Drvol

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

John Lof

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Stanley J. Radio

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Stacey L. Therrien

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

David A. Danford

Affiliation Joint Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Nebraska College of Medicine/Creighton University, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Thomas R. Porter

trporter@unmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK TRP DAD FX. Performed the experiments: SK JW JMH SG LKD JL. Analyzed the data: SG JW SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJR SLT. Wrote the paper: SK TRP.