A pharmaceutical preparation for preventing and/or treating hypertrophic
scars, keloid or chronic arthritic diseases comprising as an effective
component an erythropoietin antagonist. More specifically, there is
provided a pharmaceutical preparation for preventing and/or treating
hypertrophic scars, keloid or chronic arthritic diseases comprising as an
effective component an erythropoietin antagonist such as an
anti-erythropoietin antibody, an erythropoietin receptor protein, etc.
This pharmaceutical preparation has excellent prophylactic and/or
therapeutic effects on collagenous hyperproliferation such as
hypertrophic scars, keloid, etc., or chronic arthritic diseases such as
rheumatoid arthritis, etc.