Fenoldopam/Beta-Blockers
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Both medicines can lower your blood pressure.
What might happen:
Your blood pressure may drop too low.
What you should do about this interaction:
Fenoldopam is only used in a hospital. If you are to have either inpatient or outpatient surgery, or are to be admitted to the hospital, make sure that all the healthcare professionals are aware of all the different medicines that you are taking. This includes prescription and nonprescription medicines, herbal medicines, and nutraceuticals.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
References:
1.Corlopam (fenoldopam mesylate) US prescribing information. Abbott Laboratories March, 2004.
2.Varon J, Marik PE. The diagnosis and management of hypertensive crises. Chest 2000 Jul;118(1):214-27.
