About the Authors

Wei Nie

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Nie, Yongan Liu, Jiarong Bian, Bin Li

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yongan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Nie, Yongan Liu, Jiarong Bian, Bin Li

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Disease, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, No. 411 Hospital of PLA, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Jiarong Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Nie, Yongan Liu, Jiarong Bian, Bin Li

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Bin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Nie, Yongan Liu, Jiarong Bian, Bin Li

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Qingyu Xiu

xiu_qingyu@126.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Financial support: QYX. Provision of study materials: WN YAL JRB BL. Collection and assembly of data: WN YAL JRB BL. Data analysis and interpretation: WN YAL JRB BL. Final approval of manuscript: WN YAL JRB BL QYX. Conceived and designed the experiments: WN YAL JRB BL QYX. Wrote the paper: WN YAL JRB BL QYX.