About the Authors

Jingwen Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingwen Gao, Yasushige Shingu

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yasushige Shingu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingwen Gao, Yasushige Shingu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shingu@huhp.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Ryota Azuma

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Carres Memorial Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Satoru Wakasa

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.