Mitigation of pacing-induced cardiomyopathy with superficial right ventricular mid-septal pacing: A long-term retrospective comparison with apical pacing.

Introduction: It remains unclear if pacing induced cardiomyopathy (PICM) may be minimized by standard pacing of the right ventricle (RV) at sites other than the RV apex. The purpose of this study is to compare the relative frequency of PICM in a population of patients paced at either the superficial RV mid septum (RVMS) or RV apex (RVA), and other outcomes that may differ between these sites.

Methods And Results: A retrospective evaluation was performed on all patients undergoing pacemaker implantation between 2011 and 2022.

The Legal Consequences of Research Misconduct: False Investigators and Grant Proposals.

In a survey on research misconduct, roughly 20% of the respondents admitted that they have submitted federal grant proposals that include scholars as research participants even though those scholars were not expected to contribute to the research effort. This manuscript argues that adding such false investigators is illegal, violating multiple federal statutes including the False Statements Act (18 U.S.