Evolution of Neuroimaging Findings in Severe COVID-19 Patients with Initial Neurological Impairment: An Observational Study
, Vincent Noblet 3, Shirley Lazzara 3, Clelie Phillipps 4, Olivier Collange 7, Walid Oulehri 7, Paul-Michel Mertes 7, Julie Helms 8,9, Hamid Merdji 8, Maleka Schenck 10, Francis Schneider 10, Julien Pottecher 6,11, Céline Giraudeau 12, Agathe Chammas 1, François-Daniel Ardellier 1,3, Seyyid Baloglu 1, Khalid Ambarki 13, add
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Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Nil further comments
Author Response
Reviewer 1: No further comments
A1) We thank the reviewer for his time.
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper is scientifically sound and has some important clinical information. The grammar in this paper is generally fine but the authors need to be careful of the syntax even if it is understandable that it is likely that English is not their first language. Some of the sentences are "strangely" worded and have different meaning from what the authors intended. It may be arising from the usage of similar words that are being used in French. A word that is used in English may have a similar counterpart in French or Spanish but the counterpart in French or Spanish may have a different connotation.
I can find two examples in the paper:
On lIne 109-111:
"Moreover,
data about neurocognitive decline after recovery from COVID-19 are accumulating
(10,11), but, to our knowledge, no confrontation with neuroimaging findings was made.."
I don't think the word, "confrontation" is correct within this context and the sentence has ti be changedf. The word, "confrontation" is normally associated with fighting. I suspect that there is a similar word in French that has a different connotation.
Another example can be found in 113-114.
"This single-center study conducted in a well-characterized cohort of COVID-19 patients who performed a brain MRI for neurological symptoms during the acute phase ..."
What the authors meant was that the patients underwent MRI, not performed. Again, there may be a word in French that is similar to "perform" that has a slightly different meaning.
I recommend that the manuscript be reviewed by English speaking editors that could spot similar inadvertent misuse of English words.
Author Response
Reviewer 2:
The paper is scientifically sound and has some important clinical information. The grammar in this paper is generally fine but the authors need to be careful of the syntax even if it is understandable that it is likely that English is not their first language. Some of the sentences are "strangely" worded and have different meaning from what the authors intended. It may be arising from the usage of similar words that are being used in French. A word that is used in English may have a similar counterpart in French or Spanish but the counterpart in French or Spanish may have a different connotation.
I can find two examples in the paper:
Q1) On line 109-111:
« Moreover, data about neurocognitive decline after recovery from COVID-19 are accumulating
(10,11), but, to our knowledge, no confrontation with neuroimaging findings was made.."
I don't think the word, "confrontation" is correct within this context and the sentence has to be changed. The word, "confrontation" is normally associated with fighting. I suspect that there is a similar word in French that has a different connotation.
Another example can be found in 113-114.
"This single-center study conducted in a well-characterized cohort of COVID-19 patients who performed a brain MRI for neurological symptoms during the acute phase ..."
What the authors meant was that the patients underwent MRI, not performed. Again, there may be a word in French that is similar to "perform" that has a slightly different meaning.
A1) We agree with the reviewer’s comments. We have changed the word « confrontation » to the word « comparison », and the word « performed » to the word « underwent ».
