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

Europace. 2020 Sep 1;22(9):1442-1443. doi: 10.1093/europace/euaa053.

Jacob Tfelt-Hansen^{1

2}, Jesper Hastrup Svendsen^{1

3}, Zbigniew Kalarus^{4

5}, Davide Capodanno⁶, Gheorghe-Andrei Dan⁷, Elia De Maria⁸, Bulent Gorenek⁹, Ewa Jedrzejczyk-Patej¹⁰, Michał Mazurek¹⁰, Tomasz Podolecki¹⁰, Christian Sticherling¹¹, Vassil Traykov¹², Gregory Y H Lip^{13

14}

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.

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