About the Authors

Yao-Chung Liu

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jyh-Pyng Gau

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Yu Lin

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Catherine Jui-Ling Liu

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Jen Liu

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jin-Hwang Liu

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Nai-Wen Fan

nwfan@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YCL JPG PYL CJLL CJL JHL NWF. Data curation: YCL CJL NWF. Formal analysis: YCL CJL NWF. Funding acquisition: NWF. Investigation: YCL JPG PYL CJL NWF. Methodology: YCL JPG PYL NWF. Project administration: YCL NWF. Resources: JPG PYL CJLL NWF. Software: YCL CJL. Supervision: YCL JPG PYL CJLL CJL JHL NWF. Validation: YCL JPG PYL CJLL CJL JHL NWF. Visualization: YCL JPG PYL CJLL CJL JHL NWF. Writing – original draft: YCL NWF. Writing – review & editing: YCL JPG PYL NWF.