∗Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

†Department of Neurology, The First People's Hospital of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Qin Yang, PhD, Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 1 Youyi Road, Yuzhong District, 400016, Chongqing, China; E-mail: [email protected]

Conflicts of interest and source of funding: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 82171456 and 81971229 to Qin Yang).

ORCID: Qin Yang, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4040-1661.

Funding: This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 82171456 and 81971229).

Author contributions: Qin Yang designed the manuscript and approved the final manuscript for publication. Xue Bai, Bowen Wu, Yongjun Tan, and Mengxia Li performed material preparation, data collection, and analysis. Li Zhou wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors contributed to the conception and design of the study, commented on the previous versions of the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript.

Data availability statement: Please contact the corresponding author for data requests.

Ethics approval and consent to participate: This was a retrospective chart review study, and ethical review and approval were not required for the study of human participants in accordance with local legislation and institutional requirements. Written informed consent from the patients was not required to participate in this study in accordance with national legislation and institutional requirements.