About the Authors

Sheng-Dong Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-Dong Huang, Yang Yuan

huangsd@smmu.edu.cn (SDH); zhiyunxu@smmu.edu.cn (ZYX)

Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Yang Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-Dong Huang, Yang Yuan

Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Hao Tang

Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Xiao-Hong Liu

Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Chuan-Gang Fu

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

He-Zhong Cheng

Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Jian-Wei Bi

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Yong-Wei Yu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

De-Jun Gong

Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Jie Chen

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Zhi-Yun Xu

huangsd@smmu.edu.cn (SDH); zhiyunxu@smmu.edu.cn (ZYX)

Affiliations Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDH ZYX. Performed the experiments: YY HT XHL HZC DJG CGF JWB WZ JC YWY. Analyzed the data: SDH YY HT ZYX. Wrote the paper: SDH YY HT ZYX.