About the Authors

Zhenjun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenjun Xu, Jie Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Jie Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenjun Xu, Jie Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound Imaging, Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Wanzi Xu

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Qiuyan Zong

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Wenjie Ji

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Yin Xu

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Yunyan Su

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Kunsheng Li

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Dongjing Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

pj791028@163.com (JP); glwdj@nju.edu.cn (DW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Jun Pan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pj791028@163.com (JP); glwdj@nju.edu.cn (DW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.