About the Authors

Yu-Chieh Ko

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

De-Kuang Hwang

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Ophthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Ta Chen

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Chih Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Chih Lee, Catherine J. Liu

jlliu@vghtpe.gov.tw (CJL); hematcd2@hotmail.com (LCC)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

Catherine J. Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Chih Lee, Catherine J. Liu

jlliu@vghtpe.gov.tw (CJL); hematcd2@hotmail.com (LCC)

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCK DKH WTC CJL. Performed the experiments: CCL DKH. Analyzed the data: CCL DKH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCL DKH WTC. Wrote the paper: YCK DKH WTC CCL CJL.