About the Authors

Zhubei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhubei Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China, Nantong University Medical School, Nantong, China

Hui Xiong

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China, Nantong University Medical School, Nantong, China

Hao Shen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China, Nantong University Medical School, Nantong, China

Qingsheng You

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

yqscy@126.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.