Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.

Correspondence: Shengli Jiang, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28, Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China (e-mail: [email protected]).

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

All authors participated in the design, interpretation of the studies, analysis of data, and review of the manuscript. D.L. drafted the work and revised it critically for important intellectual content; L.L., S.D., Y.Y., and L.Z. were responsible for the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; S.J. made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work.

The data sets used and analyzed during this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.