About the Authors

Hu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hu Chen, Shiran Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

chenhu126@126.com (HC); wk_jia315@163.com (WJ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Shiran Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hu Chen, Shiran Yu

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Pidu District People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China

Xiaoyun Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Pengzhou People’s Hospital, Pengzhou, China

Yujie Gao

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Hongqi Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Yuankun Li

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Dongsheng He

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Weikun Jia

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

chenhu126@126.com (HC); wk_jia315@163.com (WJ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.