Response by Lüker et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Internal Versus External Electrical Cardioversion of Atrial Arrhythmia in Patients With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator: A Randomized Clinical Trial"

Affiliations

• ¹ University of Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, Department of Electro-Physiology, Germany (J.L., A.S., D.S.).
• ² Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology (K.K., S.S.), Germany.
• ³ Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Clinic for Electrophysiology, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany (G.N., H.O.).
• ⁴ Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany (S.W.).
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Bonn, Germany (R.A., J.W.S.).
• ⁶ St Vinzenz Hospital, Cologne, Germany (S.W.).
• ⁷ Herz- & Gefäßzentrum Göttingen, Germany (D.V.).
• ⁸ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Lübeck, Germany (R.R.T., A.J., C.-H.H.).
• ⁹ Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig, Germany (A.J.).
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Asklepios Klinik St Georg, Hamburg, Germany (A.M.).
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiology, Heart Center Oldenburg, European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, Germany (S.M.).
• ¹² Medical Clinic I, Leopoldina Hospital, Schweinfurt, Germany (K.M.).
• ¹³ Department of Internal Medicine I, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Germany (A.N.).
• ¹⁴ Klinikum Leverkusen, Germany (A.F.).
• ¹⁵ Medical Clinic II, Coburg Hospital, Germany (J.B.).
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiology (S.B.), Germany.
• ¹⁷ Center for Heart Rhythm Disorders, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia (R.M., P.S.).