Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The use of:(a) a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent,and(b) hyaluronic acid and/or salts thereof and/or homologues, analogues, derivatives, complexes, esters, fragments, and subunits of hyaluronic acid,in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting, controlling and/or regressing angiogenesis in a therapy wherein dosage amounts taken from the composition each comprise:(1) a therapeutically effective amount of component (a); and(2) a therapeutically effective amount of the hyaluronic acid and/or salts thereof and/or homologues, analogues, derivatives, complexes, esters, fragments, and sub-units of hyaluronic acid, the pharmaceutical composition being characterized in that for each dosage amount taken from the pharmaceutical composition, the amount of components (a) and (b) inhibit, control and/or regress angiogenesis.