The name was coined by Alexander Vostokov and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad, first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries.
Define inotropic: increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions â inotropic in a sentence increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractionsâ¦ See the full definition
Detailed Description: Acute heart failure is a serious disease that despite modern therapies carries a high mortality. Inotropic drugs improve patient status but yield a higher risk of death. Previous studies have shown that myocardial contractility improves when glucose fermentation is up regulated and decreases when Free Fatty Acids are high.