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Do you avoid empagliflozin in patients with history of amputation?

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To be clear, you can prescribe any SGLT2i to a patient with an amputation or at high risk for an amputation due to prior foot ulcers, insensate foot, peripheral vascular disease. The "warning" (not contraindication) in the canagliflozin PI is "Consider factors that may increase the risk of amputatio...

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