About the Authors
- Sili Zou
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Affiliations Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
- Pingping Ren
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Affiliations Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Mary Nguyen
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Affiliations Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Joseph S. Coselli
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Affiliations Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Ying H. Shen
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* E-mail: hyshen@bcm.edu (YHS); slemaire@bcm.edu (SAL)
Affiliations Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Scott A. LeMaire
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* E-mail: hyshen@bcm.edu (YHS); slemaire@bcm.edu (SAL)
Affiliations Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YHS SAL. Performed the experiments: SZ PR MN. Analyzed the data: SZ YHS. Wrote the paper: SZ YHS JSC SAL.