About the Authors

Shalaimaiti Shali

Contributed equally to this work with: Shalaimaiti Shali, Alimujiang Wushou

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhong Shan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Alimujiang Wushou

Contributed equally to this work with: Shalaimaiti Shali, Alimujiang Wushou

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, College and Hospital of Stomatology of Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China

Entao Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Medtronic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China

Lin Jia

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Medtronic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China

Ruiming Yao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhong Shan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yangang Su

su.yangang@zs-hospital.sh.cn (YS); jbge@zs-hospital.sh.cn (JG)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhong Shan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Junbo Ge

su.yangang@zs-hospital.sh.cn (YS); jbge@zs-hospital.sh.cn (JG)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhong Shan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

Two authors, Entao Liu and Lin Jia, are currently employed by a commercial company, “Medtronic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd”, as technical consultants in the Department of Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS AW ETL YGS JBG. Performed the experiments: SS AW ETL RMY. Analyzed the data: SS AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ETL LJ. Wrote the paper: SS AW YGS JBG.