Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects: 1  feeling like you might pass out; 2  fever, stiff muscles, confusion, sweating, fast or uneven heartbeats (especially if you stop taking ropinirole or use a lower dose);  hallucinations;
Myocardial infarction occurs when myocardial ischemia, a diminished blood supply to the heart, exceeds a critical threshold and overwhelms myocardial cellular repair mechanisms designed to maintain normal operating function and homeostasis.
Berger and his colleagues have done a commendable job in cementing the role of BNP as a prognostic marker for sudden, presumably arrhythmic death in CHF. Following 452 patients with ejection fractions <35% for up to 3 years, they found that the BNP level was the only independent predictor of sudden death.