About the Authors

Xiao-Chai Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Chai Lv, Lin-feng Xie

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Key Laboratory of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Fujian Medical University), Fujian Province University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Fujian Provincial Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Lin-feng Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Chai Lv, Lin-feng Xie

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Key Laboratory of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Fujian Medical University), Fujian Province University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Fujian Provincial Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Min-xia Xie

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Key Laboratory of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Fujian Medical University), Fujian Province University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Fujian Provincial Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Lei Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Key Laboratory of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Fujian Medical University), Fujian Province University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Fujian Provincial Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Yan-ting Hou

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Key Laboratory of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Fujian Medical University), Fujian Province University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Fujian Provincial Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Liang-wan Chen

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

chenliangwan@fjmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Key Laboratory of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Fujian Medical University), Fujian Province University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China, Fujian Provincial Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.