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Pentamidine isethionate 300 MG Injection [Pentam] — RxCUI 861604

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 861604 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 1 package NDC Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI861604
Official namePentamidine isethionate 300 MG Injection [Pentam]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asPentam 300 MG Injection
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped1
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)760 prescriptions · 7 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Pentamidine isethionate 300 MG Injection [Pentam... Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Pentamidine isethionate 300 MG Injection [Pentam] RxCUI 861604

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 2

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Pentamidine 7994
    • Pentamidine isethionate 7995
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Pentam 495527
  3. Dose forms 9

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Pentamidine Injection 1811403
    • Pentamidine isethionate Injection 2648108
    • Pentamidine Injectable Product 1164781
    • Pentamidine isethionate Injectable Product 2661822
    • Pentamidine Injection [Pentam] 1811406
    • Pentamidine isethionate Injection [Pentam] 2655281
    • Pentam Injectable Product 1184584
    • Injection 1649574
    • +1 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 14 of 15 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Pentamidine isethionate 300 MG Injection SCD · 861601
  • Pentamidine isethionate 300 MG SCDC · 1811402
  • Pentamidine Injection SCDF · 1811403
  • Pentamidine isethionate Injection SCDFP · 2648108
  • Pentamidine Injectable Product SCDG · 1164781
  • Pentamidine isethionate Injectable Product SCDGP · 2661822

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Pentamidine isethionate 300 MG [Pentam] SBDC · 1811405
  • Pentamidine Injection [Pentam] SBDF · 1811406
  • Pentamidine isethionate Injection [Pentam] SBDFP · 2655281
  • Pentam Injectable Product SBDG · 1184584
  • Pentam BN · 495527

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 1 package NDC
1 package NDC map to RxCUI 861604 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
63323-0113-10 10 VIAL in 1 TRAY (63323-113-10) / 3 mL in 1 VIAL (63323-11... Pentam 300 Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC 2001-01-16
Observed labelers: Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (1) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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