About the Authors

Manikandan Palrasu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Elena Zaika

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Kodisundaram Paulrasu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ravindran Caspa Gokulan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Giovanni Suarez

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jianwen Que

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Wael El-Rifai

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs, Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Richard M. Peek Jr.

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Monica Garcia-Buitrago

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Alexander I. Zaika

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

axz353@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs, Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.