Qiao, Niu
Lyu, Yizhu
Liu, Feng
Zhang, Yuliang
Ma, Xiaolin
Lin, Xiaojing
Wang, Junyu
Xie, Yinyin
Zhang, Ruihong
Qiao, Jing
Zhu, Hongming
Chen, Li
Fang, Hai
Yin, Tong
Chen, Zhu
Tian, Qiang
Chen, Saijuan
Article History
Received: 17 February 2023
Accepted: 20 July 2023
First Online: 27 December 2023
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: <b>Conflict of interests</b> Niu Qiao, Yizhu Lyu, Feng Liu, Yuliang Zhang, Xiaolin Ma, Xiaojing Lin, Junyu Wang, Yinyin Xie, Ruihong Zhang, Jing Qiao, Hongming Zhu, Li Chen, Hai Fang, Tong Yin, Zhu Chen, and Qiang Tian declare no competing interests. Saijuan Chen is the Editor-in-Chief of <i>Frontiers of Medicine</i>, who was excluded from the peer-review process and all editorial decisions related to the acceptance and publication of this article. Peer-review was handled independently by the other editors to minimize bias.
: The study was approved by Ethics Committee, Rui Jin Hospital, and the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 <i>Declaration of Helsinki</i> and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.