About the Authors

Jian-Gang Wang

wangjiangang7545@126.com (J-GW); mxu@263.net (XM)

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jie Han

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yi-Xin Jia

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Wen Zeng

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiao-Tong Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Tong Hou, Xu Meng

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xu Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Tong Hou, Xu Meng

wangjiangang7545@126.com (J-GW); mxu@263.net (XM)

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-GW X-TH XM. Performed the experiments: JH Y-XJ WZ. Analyzed the data: J-GW JH X-TH. Wrote the paper: J-GW.