1Department of Emergency Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huai’an, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huai’an, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of General Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huai’an, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China Background and Objectives: RING finger protein 38 (RNF38) has been reported to be