About the Authors

Chou-Chin Lan

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Chung-Kan Peng

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-En Tang

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Yu Wu

Affiliation Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Kun-Lun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun-Lun Huang, Chin-Pyng Wu

chinpyng@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw (CPW); kun@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (KLH)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Chin-Pyng Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun-Lun Huang, Chin-Pyng Wu

chinpyng@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw (CPW); kun@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (KLH)

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Li-Shin Hospital, Tao-Yuan County, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLH CPW. Performed the experiments: CCL CKP. Analyzed the data: CCL SET SYW KLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYW. Wrote the paper: CCL.