About the Authors

Hongjin Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors share the first authorship

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China

Ming Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

☯ These authors share the first authorship

Affiliation First Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China

Wenjing Cai

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

☯ These authors share the first authorship

Affiliation Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China

Hao Zeng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China

Xin Luo

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China

Zengkai Xu

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

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China

Jiahuang Wu

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China

Youdong Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

doctorwzs@163.com (ZW), 2444734512@qq.com (YL)

Affiliation Fuzhou University Affiliated Provincial Hospital, Fuzhou, China

Zhisheng Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

doctorwzs@163.com (ZW), 2444734512@qq.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.