Mid-Term Clinical and Morphological Outcomes After Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair for Complicated Type B Aortic Dissection

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This study attempted to explore the early and mid-term clinical efficacy of thoracic endovascular aortic repair treatment for Stanford complicated type B aortic dissection. It showed a low mortality rate of mid-term follow-up outcomes.

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access.

The manuscript has some minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof), which are listed below.

Some common errors noted are –

·       Omission of verbs in the sentence, e.g., before “still” in the 1^st sentence of the 4^th paragraph of the Introduction, before “defined” in the 1^st sentence of the 2^nd paragraph of Assessment of the aortic remodeling in the Methods, and so on.

·       Some words were started with a capital letter in the middle of a sentence in some places unnecessarily, e.g., “malperfusion”, “rupture”, “aortic”, “adjunctive”, “medication”, etc.

·       Confusion of number, e.g., “stabilize” and “precipitate” must be replaced with “stabilizes” and “precipitates” respectively in the 2^nd sentence of Conclusion in the Abstract, “was” must be replaced with “were” in the 2^nd sentence of Early events in the Results, and so on.

·       Improper use of punctuations, e.g., “;” after “segment” must be removed in the 1^st sentence of the 3^rd paragraph of Introduction, “.” Must be inserted before “Between” in the 3^rd sentence of Study design and patients in the Methods, “,” after “2012” must be removed in the 4^th sentence of the same paragraph, and so on.

 

The other errors are –

In the Abstract –

  Under Conclusion –

·       In the last sentence, “from” must be replaced with “for”, and “incidence” must be removed.

In the Introduction –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 5^th sentence, “rated” must be replaced with “was”, and “nearby” must be replaced with “near”.

In the Methods –

  Under TEVAR procedure details –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “and the” must be inserted before “mean length”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 7^th sentence, “;” must be inserted after “TBAD”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “preferred” is misspelled.

  In the 4^th paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “the” must be inserted before “conclusion”.

In the 7^th paragraph –

·       In the last sentence, “a” before “vital” must be removed.

In the last paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, the sentence must end at “settings”.

In the Limitations –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “area’s” must be removed.

In the Conclusion –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “increase” must be replaced with “increased”.

Author Info

Zakarya Ahmed Xingwei He Saddam Shaiea Hesong Zeng

Corresponding Author

Hesong Zeng
Department of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 01, May 2020
Accepted: Thu 14, May 2020
Published: Tue 23, Jun 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Hesong Zeng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2020.03.03