About the Authors

Yue Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Xuan Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiac surgery, Air Force General Hospital of People`s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Xuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Xuan Li

Affiliation Department of Vascular and Thyroid Surgery, 1st Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jie Liu

Affiliations Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, General Hospital of People`s Liberation Army, Beijing, China, Vascular Surgery Research Laboratories, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Suregery, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wei Guo

Affiliation Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, General Hospital of People`s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Hongchao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiac surgery, Air Force General Hospital of People`s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Jianchang Wang

jcwangkz@126.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiac surgery, Air Force General Hospital of People`s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YL XL JW. Data curation: YL XL. Formal analysis: YL XL. Funding acquisition: YL JW. Investigation: YL XL. Methodology: YL XL. Resources: JL WG HZ. Supervision: JW. Validation: YL XL. Visualization: YL XL. Writing – original draft: YL XL JW. Writing – review & editing: YL XL JW.