Common diabetes drugs have been linked to a ‘flesh-eating’ genital infection

09 May 2019

·www.bioportfolio.com

Patients taking some newer diabetes medications – SGLT2 inhibitors – have been warned that they may be at risk of developing necrotizing fasciitis infections on their genitals. The rare, flesh-eating bacterial infection, which is called Fournier gangrene (FG) when it appears on the genitals, was found in 55 patients receiving SGLT2 inhibitors between March 2013 and January 2019. read more

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Diabetes MellitusFasciitis, NecrotizingBacterial Infections

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SGLT2

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