Diabetic Foot Complications: Current Challenges and Future Prospects—3rd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

This is the third edition of the Special Issue “Diabetic Foot Complications: Current Challenges and Future Prospects”.

The previous two editions were quite successful, with a large number of manuscripts about different topics in diabetic foot diseases, including meta-analyses, systematic revisions, and novel studies about promising techniques that could improve diabetic foot management and lower limb ailments (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/Diabetic_Foot_Complications_2, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/Diabetic_Foot).

Diabetic foot is a growing complication due to the global rise in Diabetes mellitus prevalence, affecting 9.1 to 26.1 million people annually worldwide and between approximately 19% and 34% of people with diabetes at least once in their life. Diabetic foot is sometimes associated with lower limb amputations and higher rates of mortality than some kinds of cancer, such as breast cancer or prostate cancer. In recent years, evidence has been focused on the management of the main complications that lead patients to limb loss, such as diabetic foot infections or peripheral vascular disease. The majority of studies investigate outcomes over the acute phase when a patient has a complicated diabetic foot ulcer. However, long-term studies, randomized control trials, and studies on prevention, both primary and secondary, are still few in the literature. On the other hand, the benefits of a multidisciplinary team on patient outcomes, health care system organization, and the competences of different specialties and health care professionals and what the impact is of different organizational and structural approaches are not yet very well studied in the literature. With this Special Issue, we hope to encourage submissions that discuss the current state of the art, address ongoing knowledge gaps, and focus on ongoing controversies related to diabetic foot complications.

Prof. Dr. Luigi Uccioli
Prof. Dr. José Luis Lázaro-Martínez
Guest Editors

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