Adefovir Dipivoxil: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Adefovir Dipivoxil is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Tablet
- Sold as
- Hepsera
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
- What the pharmacy pays
- about $673 for a 30-count supply — not your price
Every adefovir dipivoxil product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Hepsera.
What adefovir dipivoxil pills look like
Imprint codes, colour and shape from the FDA’s labelling data. Match the imprint on your pill — or search any imprint.
What people report to the FDA about adefovir dipivoxil
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 1,505 reports naming adefovir dipivoxil, and the FDA flagged 98% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- drug resistance309 reports
- osteomalacia228 reports
- hypophosphataemia171 reports
- pathogen resistance156 reports
- osteoporosis155 reports
- viral mutation identified130 reports
- bone pain121 reports
- fanconi syndrome acquired101 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean adefovir dipivoxil caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take adefovir dipivoxil with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run adefovir dipivoxil against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does adefovir dipivoxil come in?
Across the brands we track, adefovir dipivoxil is currently marketed as tablet, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic adefovir dipivoxil?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled adefovir dipivoxil product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
- APA
- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Adefovir Dipivoxil: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/adefovir-dipivoxil
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- “Adefovir Dipivoxil: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/adefovir-dipivoxil.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for adefovir dipivoxil on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.