About the Authors

Li Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Wei Nie, Hongfeng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Wei Nie

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Wei Nie, Hongfeng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Hongfeng Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Wei Nie, Hongfeng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, First Municipal People’s Hospital of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Weifeng Yuan

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Weifeng Li

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Wenjie Huang

huangyelu1029@vip.163.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL WN. Performed the experiments: LL WN HFZ WFY WFL. Analyzed the data: LL WN HFZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL WN HFZ WFY WFL. Wrote the paper: LL WN HFZ WJH.