Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator in patients at risk of sudden cardiac death: consensus document from Kalarus et al. contradicts current guideline recommendations-Authors' reply

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ² Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ³ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁴ SMDZ in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiology, CAST, P.O. "Rodolico", Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
• ⁷ "Carol Davila" University of Medicine, Colentina University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
• ⁸ Ramazzini Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Carpi (Modena), Italy.
• ⁹ Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Diseases and Electrotherapy, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹² Department of Invasive Electrophysiology and Cardiac Pacing, Clinic of Cardiology, Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ¹³ Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁴ Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.