About the Authors

Xiaodong Pan

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Zhongpu Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Rong Huang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yuyu Yao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Genshan Ma

magenshan@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XP GM. Performed the experiments: XP ZC RH. Analyzed the data: XP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY. Wrote the paper: XP.