Abstract: The present invention describes an improved photodynamic treatment to treat subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV).

Abstract: The present invention describes an improved photodynamic treatment to treat subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV).

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of certain phthalazines in the preparation of medicaments for the treatment of ocular neovascularization.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for decreasing or attenuating an increase in capillary permeability in the retina in a subject in need of such treatment, comprising administering a composition comprising an amount of a phthalazine derivative or a salt thereof to a subject suffering from excessive or pathological capillary permeability in the retina, the amount of phthalazine derivative or salt thereof being effective to decrease the permeability of capillaries in the retina of the subject, in particular where the subject is suffering from macular edema.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of treating an angiogenesis-mediated ocular disorder, e.g. ocular neovascularisation, retinal neovascularisation, including neovascularisation following injury or infection, retrolental fibroplasias, and neovascular glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, pathologic myopia, ocular histoplasmosis, neovascular glaucoma, retinopathy of prematurity, the after effects of corneal transplantation, control of postsurgical ocular inflammation (e.g. after cataract surgery), cystoid macular edema (CME), herpes keratitis, in a subject in need of such treatment which comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a COX-2 inhibitor of formula I wherein R, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined; a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable prodrug esters thereof.