aDepartment of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University

bShaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated People’s Hospital of Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

cWilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Received 16 January 2024 Accepted 3 March 2024.

Correspondence to Qiaoyan Hui, MD, PhD, Shaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated People’s Hospital of Northwest University, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi, China Tel: +86 18192260178; fax: +029 89623908; e-mail: [email protected]