About the Authors

Wensheng Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wensheng Jiang, Fei Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiac surgery, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Fei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wensheng Jiang, Fei Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Haipeng Jiang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatism, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Lili Yu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Wenbo Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Qiang Li

liqiangdoct@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Luning Zuo

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ FL QL LZ. Performed the experiments: WJ FL HJ LY WL QL. Analyzed the data: WJ FL HJ LY QL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJ FL QL LZ. Wrote the paper: WJ FL QL.