About the Authors

Xinyu Zhai

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinyu Zhai, Pengsheng Yi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Pengsheng Yi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinyu Zhai, Pengsheng Yi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancrease, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province, China

Xitao Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Binhai New Area Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Haifeng Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xuejun Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

billgmy@shutcm.edu.cn (MG); herrmayor@126.com (ZM); yangxuejun@shutcm.edu.cn (XY)

‡ XY, ZM and MG also contributed equally as co-corresponding author.

Affiliation Institute of Nephrology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zubing Mei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

billgmy@shutcm.edu.cn (MG); herrmayor@126.com (ZM); yangxuejun@shutcm.edu.cn (XY)

‡ XY, ZM and MG also contributed equally as co-corresponding author.

Affiliations Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China, Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Minyao Ge

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

billgmy@shutcm.edu.cn (MG); herrmayor@126.com (ZM); yangxuejun@shutcm.edu.cn (XY)

‡ XY, ZM and MG also contributed equally as co-corresponding author.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.