Pharmaceutical preparation for promoting epithelial healing and prevention of epithelial destruction

摘要

A method of determining the presence of epithelial lesions is provided wherein a sample of a body fluid taken from an epithelial region suspected to have said lesions is tested for the presence of a proteolytic activity. The lesion is then treated by applying a therapeutically effective amount of a proteinase inhibitor in the form of a physiologically acceptable preparation, a pharmaceutical preparation of aprotinin being particularly preferred.