Promotion of wound healing utilizing steroids having reduced deteriorous systemic side effects typical of glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids and sex steroids

摘要

A pharmaceutical composition utilized for increasing neovascularization and angiogenesis during wound healing in a mammal beyond the level of neovascularization and angiogenesis which would occur at the wound site without any treatment, said composition comprising an effective amount of any angiostatic steroid which has reduced or no deteriorative or detrimental side effects combined with an effective amount of a form of hyaluronan such as hyaluronic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.