About the Authors

Yingzhong Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingzhong Lin, Ying Huang, Zhengde Lu, Cheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Ying Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingzhong Lin, Ying Huang, Zhengde Lu, Cheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Zhengde Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingzhong Lin, Ying Huang, Zhengde Lu, Cheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Cheng Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingzhong Lin, Ying Huang, Zhengde Lu, Cheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Ying shi

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Qiutang Zeng

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yifeng Cao

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lin Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Xiaoyan Wang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Qingwei Ji

jqw124@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QWJ. Performed the experiments: YZL YH CL YS LL XYW. Analyzed the data: YZL YH ZDL CL QTZ. Wrote the paper: YFC QWJ.