About the Authors

Chia-Hung Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chia-Hung Chen, Wei-Chih Liao

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Therapy, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Chih Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chia-Hung Chen, Wei-Chih Liao

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Biing-Ru Wu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Yu Chen

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Chun Chen

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Te-Chun Hsia

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Therapy, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wen-Chien Cheng

chesttu@gmail.com (CYT); wcchengdr@gmail.com (WCC)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Yen Tu

chesttu@gmail.com (CYT); wcchengdr@gmail.com (WCC)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wu-Huei Hsu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHC WCL CYT. Performed the experiments: CHC WCL BRW WC. Chen WC. Cheng CYT. Analyzed the data: CHC WCL CYC WC. Chen. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCL CYC WC. Chen BRW. Wrote the paper: CHC WCL BRW CYC WC. Cheng CYT. Supervision: CYT WC. Cheng WHH TCH.