About the Authors

Tao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Yang, Min-Jie Lu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Min-Jie Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Yang, Min-Jie Lu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Han-Song Sun

drsunhs@sina.com (HSS); cjr.zhaoshihua@vip.163.com (SHZ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yue Tang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Shi-Wei Pan

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Shi-Hua Zhao

drsunhs@sina.com (HSS); cjr.zhaoshihua@vip.163.com (SHZ)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY MJL HSS SHZ. Performed the experiments: TY MJL. Analyzed the data: TY MJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TY MJL HSS YT SWP. Wrote the paper: TY MJL HSS YT SWP SHZ. Interpretation of data: TY MJL HSS SHZ. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: HSS SHZ.