Fenoldopam: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Fenoldopam 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
- Injectable
- Sold as
- Corlopam
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every fenoldopam 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: Corlopam.
Fenoldopam and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for fenoldopam: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadNo information is available on the use of fenoldopam during breastfeeding. The manufacturer recommends avoiding breastfeeding during fenoldopam use; however, because of its poor oral bioavailability and short half-life, any fenoldopam in milk is unlikely to adversely affect the breastfed infant. Also, fenoldopam can be given intravenously to infants. Unlike dopamine, it does not decrease serum prolactin concentrations and might not interfere with nursing.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised November 15, 2024. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about fenoldopam
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 6 reports naming fenoldopam, and the FDA flagged 83% 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:
- post procedural complication2 reports
- blood pressure decreased1 reports
- catheter related complication1 reports
- deep vein thrombosis1 reports
- extravasation1 reports
- femoral artery dissection1 reports
- hypotension1 reports
- no adverse reaction1 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean fenoldopam 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 fenoldopam 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 fenoldopam 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 fenoldopam come in?
Across the brands we track, fenoldopam is currently marketed as injectable, 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 fenoldopam?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled fenoldopam 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
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Fenoldopam: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/fenoldopam
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- “Fenoldopam: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/fenoldopam.
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 fenoldopam on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.