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"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Ethical approvalAll procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consentInformed consent was obtained from all patients in the prospective trial analysis and the Institutional Review Board waived the informed consent of patients in the retrospective study. Conflict of interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose."

"Funding This study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFC0118100 and 2017YFC0110903), the Guangdong Key Area Research and Development Program (2020B010165004), the Shenzhen Key Basic Science Program (JCYJ20180507182437217), the Shenzhen Key Laboratory Program (ZDSYS201707271637577), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81873910 and 12026602), and the Capital's Clinical Applied Research Project (No.Z181100001718013)."