FDA Warns SGLT2 Inhibitors Can Cause Flesh-Eating Genital Infection.

reports the FDA is warning physicians and patients that SGLT2 inhibitors, the “widely used diabetes drugs, may, in some rare cases, cause a flesh-eating bacterial infection of the genitals,” called Fournier’s gangrene. Twelve patients developed the condition between March 2013 and May 2018, all of whom were hospitalized and had surgery. One person died from the condition. Reuters (8/29, Mathias) reports the FDA has “called for including this risk in the drugs’ labeling.” Medscape (8/29, Tucker, Subscription Publication) also covers the story. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-29/flesh-eating-genital-infection-tied-to-rare-diabetes-drug-effect